30 Years Quotes

Years were passing through the spaces between moments.

When I was young, I kept a diary for about 10 years and I had to write in it every day. Even on days when nothing seemed to happen, I made myself think of something to put in it.

Say, Britain, could you ever boast, Three poets in an age at most? Our chilling climate hardly bears A sprig of bays in fifty years.

Things have been a mess for so many years that trying to pin down a starting point is like trying to figure out where your skin starts.

Rolling Stone hates me. They must have an editorial policy to do me in for many years.

I've probably gone a month or two without playing guitar, just because I've gotten so burnt on it touring all year or whatever.

On the floor, and hanging on to the bar, squatted an old man, immobile as an object. His years had reduced and polished him as water does a stone or the generations of men do a sentence.

Some days, you feel like a 22-year-old and some days you feel like a 40-year-old.

My dad was president of the Finlandia Foundation for a number of years and there was a period of time when he tried to get me in. I'm glad I finally got in.

The EU is on the brink of becoming a European Federation by the year 2010... I feel sure that Britain will fall in line.

In the last 20, 22 years I have sung here very often and I have always felt the affection and warmth of the Italians, and I feel very close to you.

I spent several years cooking on a line.

Peace needs and takes time, it needs and takes caution, it needs and takes patience after 30 years of terrorism and violence.

The PP has spent 3 years thinking about the election (in 2008), but I think that one has to give them some advice: to prepare themselves to carry on thinking, but about the election in 2012.

We are the envy of Europe and in a few years time we are going to be one of the top countries in the world.

At the end of the 1950s, I started working at a publishing company, Estudios Cor, as production manager, so returning, but not as an author, to the world of letters I had left some years before.

I was for years in the yellow period, you know.

Mexico is now a country where we have justice and a rule of law that didn't exist here in past years.

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

Dates that come around every year help us measure progress in our lives. One annual event, New Year's Day, is a time of reflection and resolution.

I believe truly that Canada is a living history and we're going through some of the most important time in this country's short 150 years.

Iran is five to 10 years away from having a nuclear weapon. We have time to try diplomacy.

Actors can become very involved in a role, but for a director or producer, that's your life for many years.

America has had to turn to foreigners to finance its debt - not surprising since household saving in the last years has plummeted to zero. China is one of the largest holders of American debt.

I hadn't done anything in six years; I was just vegetating.

In our hearts those of us who know anything worth knowing know that in March a new year begins, and if we plan any new leaves, it will be when the rest of Nature is planning them too.

Pitching is pitching. I've been doing this since I was eight-years-old, playing in my backyard with my dad. The things that work in Double-A will also work in the majors.

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

I was like a Borscht Belt comedian trapped in the body of a 6-year-old. I was channeling Jackie Mason at 7.

I certainly never imagined 80-year-olds singing along, like they were watching Cats. I'm fascinated by that kind of pop cultural zeitgeist that it's attached itself to.

There was a 10- and 8-year difference between us, so my brothers were into tormenting me and I was into getting away from them.

Acting comes natural to me. What I do enjoy is meeting people that I've idolized for years. I mean, I was talking about bringing up a child with Edie Falco yesterday.

I did not practice hours a day for eighteen years to have my success attributed to a myth.

I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.

Over the years, I've collected a lot of musical friends.

At one point, I was painting shells and selling them at gas stations for five cents. I was six years old or something.

The Syrian government is weak today in 2017, but it's been gathering strength. And I think it's likely that, in the next few years, you will see the Syrian government retake much of Syria.

I guess this year I'm going to find out if I'm good enough or not. If I'm not, I don't care. I'll do something else, it's not a biggie.

I believe we are the only sentient beings in the universe, and I believe that 500 years from now, we will still be the only sentient beings around.

I'm well aware when they fired the starting gun I was halfway down the track, but I still ran as fast as I could for 25 years.

Perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead.

I think that no one roiled American politics and sort of scrambled the left/right dynamic more 2015 year than Pope Francis.

Before I undertake a lengthy project, I have usually given much thought to it over a period of years. My files are filled with likely subjects - which perhaps, one day, I will develop.

Does it bother me that I'm attached to 'Three's Company' 30 years after? Not at all. All we were trying to do was be funny. How can I complain? That's all I wanted to do.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

Over the years, I've learned that a confident person doesn't concentrate or focus on their weaknesses - they maximize their strengths.

I was tormented with guilt for years and years. In fact, it was so bad that if I didn't feel wrong, I didn't feel right!

I spent most of the early years of my walk with God focused on what was wrong with me. Most of us probably do that, hoping to change ourselves.

After years of abuse, it was difficult for me to understand God's love. It took me years to truly understand it.

I lived in the Muslim world for 10 years.