30 Years Quotes

There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy.

It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops

Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead.

A rill in a barnyard and the Grand Canyon represent, in the main, stages of valley erosion that began some millions of years apart.

The Olympics are every four years and I think every athlete who competes in the Olympics wants the gold medal, and I think that's what the World Cup is for a rugby player - it's the gold medal.

I'm not somebody who runs from the press. I'm not coy. I appreciate the press I've had over the years.

The thing that pleases me the most about it is that young people like it. It's given kids from 6 to 16 an alternate view of music to what's been available for the past 20 years.

Say no ill of the yeere, till it be past. [Say no ill of the year till it be past.]

A snow year, a rich year.

By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.

And thus was kept the first Christmas, the Christmas in the year one, with carols by the choir of heaven, and God's own Son, the Saviour of the world, coming as a Christmas gift for all mankind.

After the first couple of years recording I did a lot of praying. I said, 'Lord, please give me a hit.' I want one so bad.

For many years I've been using Swarovski accessories when styling editorial photo shoots and also for red carpet appearances.

George: Why've you had a grudge against your brother for 15 years? Benny: We Lopezes are a proud people... George: You have a birthday lunch at Denny's every month. We're not that proud!

If you can tune into the fantasy life of an 11-year-old girl, you can make a fortune in this business.

I tell you, there are more worlds, and more doors to them, than you will think of in many years!

I saw thee ne'er before; I see thee never more; But love, and help, and pain, beautiful one, Have made thee mine, till all my years are done.

For 50 years, the Republicans have been accusing the Democrats of being soft on national security.

I think I've gotten everything I want out of the last years, and I still feel like I have a lot of options open to me.

If I can't affect some change in six years, maybe I'm in the wrong place.

We may be together for another six months—a year—there’s no knowing. At the end we’re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?

The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past.

We have all the information in the universe at our fingertips, while our most basic problems go unsolved year after year...All around, we see dazzling technological change, but no progress.

He had found over the years that silence sometimes yielded more than questions. And so it was this time.

The air smelled of paper and dust and years.

If the novels are still being read in 50 years, no one is ever going to say: 'What's great about that sixth book is that he met his deadline!' It will be about how the whole thing stands up.

I worked out of Hollywood for 10 years and I had my heart broken half a dozen times, so I know all the things that can go wrong.

Most people were startled to find out there were books that preceded Game Of Thrones. I'm a case of working forty years to be an overnight success.

Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

One changes from day to day, and... after a few years have passed one has completely altered.

Some forty years of experience in my field as a scholar and as a teacher have given me great confidence mixed with greater humility.

When somebody you've known for 20 years, and with whom you have a full context, winks at you or whatever, it can be huge. I think in a sense what you're trying to re-create in fiction is that.

I'm turning 58, and you get that kind of weird, old-guy feeling of you don't have an infinite number of years left and if there's anything you want to say or represent, it's time to try it.

We're travelling for about nine-and-a-half months a year.

I've had great fans, and they've been so loyal over the years.

I'm an anglophile. I visit England regularly, sometimes three or four times a year, at least once a year.

We're spending money on clean coal technology. Do you realize we've got 250 million years of coal?

[Should] Iraq acquire fissile material, it would be able to build a nuclear weapon within a year.

If the Iraqi regime is able to produce, buy or steal an amount of highly enriched uranium a little larger than a single softball, [it] could have a nuclear weapon in less than a year.

Americans spend 6 billion hours a year filling out their tax reforms.

We have enough coal to last for 250 years, yet coal also prevents an environmental challenge.

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

I'm not that worried about [my parents] right now because they are happy people. I'm pleased that in their later years, in spite of physical ailments, they're upbeat.

In 2002, a lot of the pundits didn't get the off-year elections right. In 2004, a lot of people thought I was going down eight days before the election.

People who plan their life when they're 18 years old and say, "This is my life plan," would generally be surprised and maybe disappointed.

[Pope Francis] is 78 years old and knows that his will be a short pontificate.

The impact remains to be seen; I don't think we can measure the enduring impact of John Paul II, for example, for another hundred, perhaps two hundred, years.

An eighty-nine year old kid from Boston playing a blues in New Orleans takes a lot of chutzpah.

Political nature abhors a vacuum, which is what often exists for a year or two in a party after it loses a presidential election.

I haven't played a single game all year. This is bullshit!