30 Years Quotes

The earth endured Christ's ministry only three years;--not three weeks after his real character and purposes were generally known.

Has not God borne with you these many years? Be ye tolerant to others.

I think we had quite enough capitalism in the last eight years; I think we need some regulation now.

I've admired Bill Kauffman's books for years . . . appealing, elegantly written, and entirely American.

Four hundred years is but a moment in 10,000 years. Time is curved, time is braided. Throw out your clocks.

I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.

Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or the first burst of something wonderful.

Humans have lived for much, much longer than the approximately 10,000 years of settled agricultural civilization.

I'm somebody who seems to stumble into things 10 or 20 years before the rest of the world does.

More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

Baby boom generation in China will start to hit retirement age in the very next few years, let's say by the end of this decade.

The good thing is, we have household formation in this country. We have a country where I don't know whether it's a million households a year or more, but good form.

When I went into Bobby's World, I had no idea it would be a success. I had been doing the Bobby voice as part of my nightclub adult act for years.

I am about to die. It is September 11, and every cell in my body is acutely aware of my looming demise. The certainty of it. The inevitability. Not years from now, not weeks nor days. Moments.

Write down five things you love to do. Next, write down five things that you're really good at. Then just try to match them up! Revisit your list once a year to make sure you're on the right track.

I always think the great parts outlive the actors that play them and that's a stage tradition, that goes back hundreds of years and it should be that way.

Joseph Smith could not have picked a better year to start The Book of Mormon than 600 B.C.

For a hundred years we have been one of the largest oil-producing countries in the world but with a 60 percent poverty rate and now we are canceling the historical debt.

After watching wrestling for 20 years, I thought I had enough confidence to do it. There were no wrestling schools at the time.

I'm from out of town," he said breezily. This was true. He'd never been within a hundred light-years of the place.

I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.

Even in my side of the world, I've been in publishing for what, 25 or 26 years, and it's gone from being a gentlemen's club to being a few big players, and it's very corporatised.

It's very hard for someone who makes $1,000 a year or some who makes less than $1 a day to care about the environment.

For years I have made the point that progress in winding back economic slack is made not by high growth in any individual year, but by maintaining an expansion over a sustained period.

I consider the piano my 'main' instrument and have been playing for as long as I can remember. It seems to me that I might have come up with something resembling a song as early as 4 or 5 years old.

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.

I've worked for more than 50 years on the stage and I have played great, great, great roles, but I haven't played a great Shakespearean role because they're all male. I'm actually very proud of it.

I just want to make it clear that I have been working since I was ten years old.

I've bashed my body for 30 years and I've just got to eat properly and not drink too much - very difficult!

I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me.

I think that all the years of exposure to amps and electricity has altered my body chemistry.

The performance of performance has developed to such an extent in recent years that it challenges the music itself and will soon threaten it with relegation.

They have all different names for music. I think the music I'm going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I'm gone.

Demographics don't lie, economies don't lie. When the median age of your population is twenty-four-years-old and a quarter of the working population's unemployed - this is not a recipe for success.

Her imagination painted Georgie twenty years later, sitting in leg irons before some Broken psychiatrist. "Well, you see, it all started with bubbles.

Putin is very much afraid of leaving. Because he is formally right now in his first term, so has another eight years from now. Legally, he has created all the mechanisms for himself. He's a lawyer.

The Reagans were dear friends for many years, even when he was governor of California. Nancy appreciated a lot of Philippine-made things.

I myself, in my heart, say that people should have all the children they want. But it's a mistaken idea, like many of our ideas that go back thousands of years, and it must be rooted out.

Don't forget that Linux became only possible because 20 years of OS research was carefully studied, analyzed, discussed and thrown away.

We lived in a totalitarian system for more than 70 years, and our views are still under its influence. Many heads of state in the former Soviet republics believe that they must have total power.

You have to observe a few simple rules in dressing, which are really not rules; it's just being appropriate. If you're 70 and want to wear miniskirts, 70-year-old knees ain't pretty!

When you believe you have a future, you think in terms of generations and years. When you do not, you live not just by the day — but by the minute.

By the year 1982 the graduated income tax will have practically abolished major differences in wealth.

Seven million ship cargo containers come into the United States every year. Five to seven percent only are inspected - five to seven percent.

Mr Newton, a fellow of our College, and very young, being but the second year master of arts; but of an extraordinary genius and proficiency.

I have known Ori Kam for several years and have always regarded him as an extraordinarily talented young mucisian.

At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.

When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of the years, not a physical winding down or scarcity of opportunity.

I have been a woman for 46 years and I only recently realized I can't change it and I like it.