30 Years Quotes

It is a very wonderful experience indeed, when, at fifty years old, you suddenly discover that for the first time in your life, you are really free to be yourself.

I dedicated almost 12 years to the music industry before having children.

I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself.

I guess that somehow I've survived as a professional guitar player. I've made it 16 years now and I feel like I'm just getting started. Variety is a secret to the success of that.

Life doesn't offer you promises whatsoever so it's very easy to become, 'Whatever happened to... ?' It's great to be wanted. I spent a few years not being wanted and this is better.

I sang and wrote songs when I was 12 years old.

I've been able to do pretty well. I don't work as many consecutive nights as I used to, but I'm still working over 100 nights a year, so that's good for me.

I didn't feel anything [frustraiting]. I just kept working 110 or 120 nights a year.

I had a plan ever since I was nine years old, when I said "Mama, I'm a buy you a nice house and pretty dresses." That was the plan, that was my goal.

I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.

Oh! how the hours hasten to change into days, the days into months, the months into years, and those into life's annihilation!

When you get a mobile phone it is almost like having a card to get you out of poverty in a couple of years.

It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.

These years are still the years of my prime. It is important to recognise the years of one's prime, always remember that.

When the years bring wisdom, one learns to leave many problems to their own working out.

Youth asks no greater privilege than to fight its own battles. It is mistaken kindness to shield - it weakens one in the years to come.

... sometimes, out of bitterness, the years distill forgiveness.

I'm very much interested in water and women in water. I've been photographing that for years although I didn't really know it at the time.

My work from the last 25 years has been asking people to see differently.

Have the courage of your own convictions and don't be swayed by friends who boast about their financial home runs. Last year's winners are often this year's losers.

I was a prosecutor for many years, I'm a crime victim myself, and I've tried so many cases I don't even know how many anymore.

I was 47 when I got pregnant. I'd been trying for a couple of years and thought it would never happen.

My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.

I started skating when I was six years old.

In a couple of days, it will be 40 days, 40 hours, 40 years in the desert - 40 is fraught with meaning and symbolism.

If you make - not have - $1 million a year, should you not participate in the sense of community of our country? I'm willing to put that on the table.

I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

I consider myself British and have very happy memories of the UK. I spent the first 14 years of my life in England and never wanted to leave. When I was in Australia I went back to England a lot.

I wanted to be Jimi Hendrix's drummer when I was in high school, but I graduated in 1970, the year he died.

As India will complete 75 years of Independence in the year 2022, let's work towards Surajya & a nation where every section of society is developed.

We need a Skilled India but Congress has created a Scam India in the last 10 years.

Leave at night and you reach Australia next morning. But it took 28 years for an Indian PM to come to Australia!

Those who think only for a year, they sow food grains; those who think for a decade, they plant fruits; But those who think for generations, they prepare humans.

It used to hurt me in the past years to hear people say they want to leave India. But with the experience of past few months, I can say that we have removed that gloom from the minds of the people.

Our nations are so close yet such a visit took 17 years. This will change & we will strengthen India-Nepal ties.

I have toured around for 45 years and have experience of night halt at more than 400 districts. And that's why I know the reality of this earth.

For 60 years you gave chance to Shasaks, now I request you to give a Sevak 60 months. I say give me 60 months and we will give you a life of peace and happiness.

Almost 4.25 lakh toilets were built in 2.62 schools nationwide in one year; this gives self-confidence that we can do what we want.

Last year I spoke about Clean India and open defecation, it was criticised then but that has been the main point with which the government has touched the lives of the people.

If I wanted to make over my image, I could have given 10,000 interviews in the last 10 years. I haven't done anything wrong that I need to make up for. I am what I am in front of the world.

India is a civilization with a history that is thousands of years old.The diversity of India, of our civilization, is actually a thing of beauty, which is something we are extremely proud of.

In the past two or three years, the number of clubs has doubled ... we've got close to 8 000 players, about 60 to 80 clubs. It's not restricted to the metros any more, it's gone rural.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.

I say personally because I am 84 years old, and [Barack Obama's] is the first administration that has scared me in terms of my lifespan.

William Shawn was the editor of The New Yorker and for whom I worked for, God, 27 years; a man I respected enormously because of what he did, - what the magazine was about.

It's good to actually cry. Trust me, I've had a lot of practice over the years!

Have you murdered anyone in the last day, week, month, year, decade? Probably not. Then don't worry about it. Give yourself a break. You're probably a really fine person.

I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.