30 Years Quotes

The Impressionists had to fight the gallery system for many years before becoming accepted. One of their methods of fighting was to band together and hold their own shows.

[ Jonathan] Edwards is one of my heroes. I've learned much from him over the years.

Most people spend less than 20 hrs a year learning about freedom, yet many wonder why it's in decline. Don't fight upstream. Instead, turn it around.

A man he was to all the country dear, And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

People start to act very unusually when they find out that they're dying, that they don't have that many years left.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.

I do not tweeze my eyebrows. I've been letting them grow out for years. I try to fill them in wherever nature has abandoned me.

In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.

I played a scene at the end of my first year, and that's how I was discovered.

I have been in the film industry for 35 years, and everyone, including the spot-boys, will vouch for my character.

For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.

When you have a passion for something the hours, days, months and years that it takes to complete the project becomes secondary because you're working on something that you love.

After all these years, I could say thank you to a woman who had a powerful impact on my early life.

Sometimes I ask myself whether [Indira Gandhi] had, even then, a certain contempt for the system she represented and, years later, would overthrow.

If we should tell ourselves the truth, all things being equal, President Jonathan will be re-elected with minimal stress, because of his sterling performance in the last six years.

As was noted in the Wall Street Journal, last March 21st, FDA approval of drug labelling, '...requires seven to ten years, and costs each applicant an average of $70 million.'

Being young is an 18 year prison sentence for a crime your parents committed. But you do get time off for good behavior.

When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

What women have achieved in the last 50 years, I wish men would have achieved in the last 100.

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years.

Our Lord was 30 years preparing for 3 years of service. The modern stamp is to spend 3 hours preparing for 30 years of service.

Nothing is swifter than our years.

May you live unenvied, and pass many pleasant years unknown to fame; and also have congenial friends. [Lat., Vive sine invidia, mollesque inglorius annos Exige; amicitias et tibi junge pares.]

A frail gift is beauty, which grows less as time draws on, and is devoured by its own years.

That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.

Winged time glides on insensibly, and deceive us; and there is nothing more fleeting than years.

I haven't been to a job interview since I was 16 years old. When I was approached by Givenchy it was more like a courtship.

The year I gave up the 150-catch streak I had an ankle injury and didn't want to go back in because I'd have a better chance of playing the following week.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

A birthday wish granted 23 years late is still a birthday wish granted.

I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.

When men I have dated over the years whined about, ‘Oh, you make no time for me’ – see ya! I just dumped them. I don’t need that pressure in my life.

I'm an actor that likes to go to work. I like going to work every day. I'm a worker by nature. I'm not someone who does one film a year and feels satisfied by that.

Flute was actually my first instrument. I had a year of lessons and then stopped after feeling like I was going to faint all of the time.

Every time I write a book, I've probably taken five years off my life.

I think that having the years in college to really focus on your training is incredibly valuable. College shapes the kind of person/actor that one becomes.

And it can take a lifetime, a life of many years, to accept the incongruity of things: that a small moment can sit side by side with a big one, and become part of the same.

Writing a first novel was an arduous crash course. I learned so much in the six years it took me to write it, mostly technical things pertaining to craft.

[Dan Fried] served six presidents over a 40-year career dating back to the [Jimmy] Carter administration.

I have known that I wanted to be a designer since I was 8 years old.

So could we please not mob the three-thousand-plus-year-old reaper like tweens at a boy-band concert?

I started styling people when I was just eight years old, without even knowing what a stylist was.

I came from Canada, where it's freezing cold for seven months out of the year.

I feel lucky to keep playing tennis, being healthy all those years, to compete in one of the most beautiful events of the year, without a doubt.

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.

You get an image in the first couple of years of your career, and then whether you like it or not, you are stuck with it for the rest of your life.