30 Years Quotes

I have learned many things in the 30 years that I have been writing.

I am an American citizen and it is my home now. I like the USA, which is not a place too many people have liked since Bush. The US has a young population, and everything can change within a year.

The fact that I am a writer comes from the experience of being cut away from my roots and living in Venezuela, where I couldn't find a place for myself, for years and years.

I've been a foreigner for the past twenty years. I don't have roots anymore. My roots are in my memory and my writing. That's why memory is so important. Who are you but what you can remember?

If you go back 150 years you are a reactionary; but if you go back 1000 years, you are in the foremost ranks of progress.

If I had not passed through trial - through passion, one could say - through these years so painful and so rich, I don't believe I could take on my life and my career as I do today.

It's been about 15 years, and I've never really worked seriously in CGI and I thought that here was an opportunity to do the kinds of things that I was not able to do on Ghostbusters.

In some countries we have had the right to vote for less than 100 years, so the entry of women into political leadership has caused a tsunami.

Plan your hours to be productive...Plan your weeks to be educational...Plan your years to be purposeful. Plan your life to be an experience of growth. Plan to change. Plan to grow.

A novelist who writes nothing for 10 years finds his reputation rising. Because I keep on producing books they say there must be something wrong with this fellow.

If a 25-year old can't read and write and he or she isn't gaining marketable skills, it doesn't matter if a Republican or a Democrat is in the White House. His or her future will be bleak.

I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.

There were so many ways to be twenty-six years old.

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

It's true that I have very little idea what I shall be writing next, but at the same time I have a powerful premonition of everything that lies ahead of me, even ten years ahead.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

I must admit, Peter, I have difficulty in understanding why an innocent man would want to spend twelve years as a rat.

Ron, we're supposed to show the first years where to go!" "Oh yeah," said Ron, who had obviously forgotten. "Hey -- hey you lot! Midgets!

No, Harry, you listen," said Hermione. "We're coming with you. That was decided months ago - years, really.

Be ruthless about protecting writing days....althoug h writing has been my actual job for several years now, I still seem to have to fight for time in which to do it.

I am prouder of my years as a single mother than of any other part of my life.

Seven years after becoming a lone parent, I feel qualified to look anyone in the eye and say that people bringing up children single-handedly deserve, not condemnation, but congratulation.

I have to write the story I want to write. I never wrote them with a focus group of 8-year-olds in mind. I have to continue telling the story the way I want to tell it.

The first story I finished was when I was six years old.

My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return.

But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know.

At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change.

She carried the burn of the sun on her body. It was for all of those wasted, dull years.

The hope in radio is to build an audience over a number of years, a slow build to see if something works.

The Chicken Soup for the Soul books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches.

One Saturday in 1984, I walked into my first AA meeting. I went regularly for six years and only stopped when I came to realize my underlying problem was not genuine alcoholism, but depression.

I joke sometimes that I live a protracted adolescence, that a part of me will always be twelve years old.

To hear the faint sound of oars in the silence as a rowboat comes slowly out and then goes back is truly worth all the years of sorrow that are to come.

I don't want to wait 20 or 50 years for something to be done about petrochemical pollution.

Now I have the voice of a 16-year-old. I'm looking for a doctor who could give me the body of a 16-year-old.

For 50 years, acting was the reason I got up in the morning.

My wife is my protector. Without her, I'm nothing. She wants to please me, and I want to please her. We've been together over 53 years.

Every year is vital in the life of a child.

I like to catch fish and release them. I probably haven't killed a fish that I've caught in sport fishing for 20 years. No reason to kill it. You know, just take it and release it.

None of the guys did anything. We never did anything. I never really got into the workout room until I was about 40 years old. I was pretty strong and I didn't think I needed that much.

I played in a basketball league until I was 40 years old. I played every Monday night and the guys would say, "You take him out, and you'll see us afterwards."

I play the Father/Son every year on the PGA TOUR Champions. I split it between Jackie and Gary as my playing partners.

I go to see maybe seven films a year at the most, and since I only go to see the best, it follows that I very rarely see my own.

The universe is eight billion years old, the last two billion of which have produced intelligent life. During this time not one hour of absolute equity has prevailed.

Years ago R.N.A. was kind of a bit player in the cell. Now our picture's completely inverted, and we think R.N.A.'s really the important thing.

I was always very independent and looked out for myself. I think that ability really helped me in later years both in sports and in theatre.

We've only been wealthy in this country for 70 years. Who said we ought to have all this? Is it ordained?

The most exciting rock 'n' roll band of the last 50 years who are still on the road today