30 Years Quotes

I've been running a full marathon every year for more than 20 years, and my record is getting worse. Getting older, getting worse. It's natural.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

Grandfather always said school’s a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

I actually may do a musical next year... not one that I've written; one that I may star in. Plus my concert and other people's work and all of a sudden you've got a very full life.

I have to work really hard, eight shows a week, to get a nice check as an actor. But when I write a play, and it's a - knock wood - hit, the checks come in for many years.

Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)

If I was just considered a looker and wasn't considered an actor, where would I be in 10 or 20 years from now?

I was quiet for a year but I had 4,000 articles written about me.

My dad passed away before my freshman year, and it altered how I thought. I was depressed - I didn't hang out with my friends. I worked through it by dancing.

I danced for 15 years of my life. Which was my love and my passion.

God will forgive me. It's his job." Heine said this on his deathbed (1856). Hilarious. He must have thought that up years before and counted the seconds to use it.

When we talk about the impact inside mathematics, and applications in the sciences, [Mandelbrot] is one of the most important figures of the last 50 years.

I think the pressure to be perfect generally in life has amped up massively in the last twenty years: especially for young people with the advent of social media.

I'd been working on the [Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries material] for years, first, in the Independent newspaper columns and then in the various versions of the movie scripts.

Now, I - for several years while I was researching this book, I felt quite obsessed by thoughts about sentencing, punishment, how judges arrive at their decisions.

some bosses are so greedy (for themselves only) they forget underlings are not thirteenth-century peasants who can be satisfied with a glass of mead and three festivals a year.

There is no better way to get to know someone than to have an affair ... it can save years of lunches.

I find that fact and fancy look alike across the years that link the past with the present.

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I've been working every year since I started acting, and I got many awards before I won the Oscar for 'The Queen.'

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically .

Nobody ever warned me about mirrors, so for many years I was fond of them, and believed them to be trustworthy. . .

It took so long to make it in America. The year I arrived was a bad year for women singers, the record company told me. So I starved. I lived in a hotel so dreadful I can't even talk about it.

It took me a year to really learn the American lingo. I really feel for people who are coming here and don't speak English at all. It must be hell.

I censored myself for 50 years when I was a reporter. Now I wake up and ask myself, 'Who do I hate today?'

As a reporter having covered him for eight years in the White House, I am sure the media could have done a better job if we had known the real Ronald Reagan.

now I am capable of youth, but not capable of few years - that is the pitiful thing.

You are by yourself for the best years of your life. You sleep in airports. If it doesn't kill you it makes you strong.

We can say farewell to 10 years of bourgeois rule... now we have the opportunity to change Denmark.

We can with confidence set a goal to make this Christmas brighter than the last and each year that follows brighter still.

If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself. Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

Count your age with friends but not with years.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

Thus was my first year's life in the woods completed; and the second year was similar to it. I finally left Walden September 6th,1847.

Whether you think you can, or you think you can't, you still have to file your 990 each year.

As we get older we do not get any younger. Seasons return, and today I am fifty-five, And this time last year I was fifty-four, And this time next year I shall be sixty-two.

Spring and fall, those are very inspiring times of the year for me.

For many years, my favorite director has been the Japanese giant Akira Kurosawa.

This is my 25th year of being on stage. A lot of people who I kind of toed up to the starting line with are no longer in this position. I feel very, very lucky.

When I think of Mick Jagger still singing that he can't get any satisfaction in over forty years of being in the Rolling Stones, I have to conclude that he's either lying or not all that bright.

I have been curious about Haiti for many years. The history of the country is as fascinating as it is turbulent.

As a young person growing up in Washington, D.C., summers were hot, humid and relentless. My friends and I grew more restless and adventurous with every passing year.

Motivation has always been a fascinating factor when considering a touring artist, especially when the years stack up. What keeps one out there year after year?

There's no retirement, there's just a few years of non-work by the fire with someone bringing you some tea and relative peace and playing with the grandchildren.

I was raised in Washington, DC, very violent place. I grew up with violence. My introduction to music was violent. The years I've spent on tours, some of that was extremely violent.

Because a child of one doubles its age after the passage of a single year, it can be said to be aging rapidly.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

As the guardian of our rights, the Supreme Court makes decisions every year which either protect the individual or leave him at the mercy of more powerful forces in our society.

Businesses want to offer solid, affordable health insurance to their employees, but it is getting harder to find every year.