30 Years Quotes

I was twenty-nine years old and I wasn't a very good poet and I wasn't a very good novelist, [so] I thought I would try writing a play, which seems to have worked out a little better.

Days are like years in the love of the young, when no bar, no obstacle, is between their hearts,--when the sun shines, and the course runs smooth--when their love is prosperous and confessed.

I'd been offered TV series over the years and never had any interest in doing television. I'm not a TV guy.

Making a choice is like backing a horse - in a hundred years, they may decide you picked wrongly.

Democrats would use every tool in our arsenal to ensure that his [Charles Pickering] nomination is rejected again this year.

I had the privilege of chairing Judge Samuel Alito confirmation hearing in 1990. And at that time, he had practiced law for 14 years, but only represented one client, the United States government.

I've been involved in and out of the UN for many years - in fact my first internship was in 1971, so it goes back a couple of years!

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

The difference between psychedelia and digitalia ages will seem like a smooth blending in years to come and will be a mere blip on the screen.

It's becoming less and less the National Security Agency and more and more the national surveillance agency. It's gaining more offensive powers with each passing year.

When we think in the context of the last decade's infringements upon personal liberty and the last year's revelations, it's not about surveillance. It's about liberty.

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

Day buries day; month, month; and year the year: Our life is but a chain of many deaths.

Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear; Small stands the mountain, moments make the year, and trifles life.

The person of wisdom is the person of years.

Tech is a funny industry I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.

Kids do better, frankly [when the economy is strong]. Jobs make great years for kids.

For through it all--above, beyond it all-- I know the far-sent message of the years, I feel the coming glory of the Light.

I've been approached by major labels every single year of my existence as an artist. Since 1996.

Thankfully, the life of an actor can be quite balanced anyway. If you look over the course of a whole year, you do tend to have periods of down time. So, it's about managing the balance.

I will be singing primarily all the songs from the musicals that I have been in from over the years.

I can't get married. I can't fake sleep for 30 years.

I had an opportunity to start going around the world when I was about 18 years old. So, I did. That's one of the things that I was doing.

Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.

I've been here a long time working for women. These are long years and this is an unusual legislator.

I remember saying to my mom, 3 years old, every day, ‘I can fly!’ Living on the ninth floor, it was dangerous.

The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.

One thing I've learned about the NBA is that you can have one good year, but you've always got to be progressing and working and making yourself better.

I saw Alien when I was 8 years old. To me, it was like a combination of Jaws and Star Wars and that's the movie that made me want to be a director.

I like movies like 'Mother's Day', where you watch it, and you've liked it for years as a horror movie.

I want a movie that 30 years from now, people can look back and see it as a reflection of where the culture was at - as a barometer of the culture.

I want it to be able to hold up in 30 years' time. So, I'm really thinking about everything.

For nearly 3,500 years Exodus has left such an imprint on people's memories that I cannot imagine it had been invented just as a legend or a tale.

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what is hate. Didn't help but at least they explored it.

I am a great admirer of Henry Jeffreys and have been eagerly awaiting his booze and empire book for many years!

I didn't care about truth; I cared about beauty. It took me many years--it took the experience of lived time--to realize that they really are the same thing.

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

My dad actually taught me to box when I was, like, nine years old, because I got picked on at school all of the time. I was on a boys' hockey team, so I would get all of my aggression out there.

Each year, I say I'm going to go to school next year. It's inevitable that I'll end up getting my education.

My mom is like this hard-core, liberal feminist. She's a professor in Boston, and she's been teaching women's studies for 30 years and international politics.

The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind.

I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls.

Let's just say that if you were stealing TVs instead of thoughts, you would have been caught by a half-deaf, mostly blind, fifteen year old dog three robberies ago.

It took me ten years to write The Night Journal, so that was a big ordeal.

It seems like the Western genre has crept out of its casings during the last few years, and expanded to include books and movies we wouldn't originally have thought of as westerns.

You know, my background, I was at a non-profit for years.

Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro High School in Lake Forest, Calif.

So sadness is a place?' Giovanni asked. 'Sometimes people live there for years,'I said.

I want to learn how to speak Italian. For years, I'd wished I could speak Italian--a language I find more beautiful than roses :)