30 Years Quotes

I need to know if she [Sarah Palin] thinks dinosaurs were here four thousand years ago... because she's going to have the nuclear code.

Women have had the vote for over forty years and their organizations lobby in Washington for all sorts of causes; why, why, why don't they take up their own causes and obvious needs?

No one can see ahead three years, let alone five or ten. Competition, new inventions - all kinds of things - can change the situation in twelve months.

A man forgets his good luck next day, but remembers his bad luck until next year.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

He (Tiberius) was wont to mock at the arts of physicians, and at those who, after thirty years of age, needed counsel as to what was good or bad for their bodies.

Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.

People feel like they know you when you're in their living room, weekly, for five years. But I always get uncomfortable when people know more about me than I know about them.

Financial hydrogen bombs built on personal computers by 26-year-olds with MBAs.

In the last five years I used to go to Zen practice once a month, but since I assumed the post of prime minister it's been much harder.

Fifty years ago wealth was stored and transmitted physically through gold bars, stock certificates, bank notes, and coins.

I remember flying with Air India to New York quite a few years ago now and I love Indian food, so the fact that I had a curry on board was fantastic.

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

I joined the Communist Party late in the summer of 1934. I got out a year and a half later.

One of the reasons I am happy now is that I did the work I had always dreamed of doing. But I didn't start doing it seriously and professionally until I was forty years old.

What we eat has changed more in the last 40 years than in the previous 40,000. The survival of the current food system depends upon widespread ignorance of how it really operates.

Playing frisbee with a five year old is amazingly similar to chasing after a frisbee.

We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.

Now is the time to fix the next 10 years.

My new year's resolution is definitely to quit smoking. I need to do it.

Early in my career, I struggled with consistency, but I couldn't get more consistent than this year.

When I got to professional ball I used to play 150 games every year. It depends on how many games there was.

I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

For after years of living in a cage, a lion no longer even believes it is a lion . . . and a man no longer believes he is a man.

I still believe in what I believed in for 20 years as a Socialist in Parliament, and being a Socialist is not the same as being a utopian.

It takes 50 years to get a wrong idea out of medicine, and 100 years a right one into medicine.

We doctors have always been a simple trusting folk. Did we not believe Galen implicitly for 1500 years and Hippocrates for more than 2000?

Over the years, during television interviews, whenever the host or the reviewer or whoever gets cynical and nasty with me, I will behave accordingly. I will defend myself.

I complain that the years fly past, but then I look in a mirror and see that very few of them actually got past.

I love the idea of having a kid who says, 'Yeah, of course I knew about Billie Holiday and Johnny Cash when I was nine years old.'

I knew Bob Dylan was searching for the truth and had been for years. And anyone who Really wants the truth ends up at Jesus

Insurance companies don't necessarily want to invest in your wellnes because you're likely to switch insurance companies within 10 years. They don't benefit from their investment in you.

I was an alcoholic, for sure. It became a problem steadily over the course of six years.

Guys are idiots, till they're what, 40 years old.

We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse.

Life is a frail moth flying Caught in the web of the years that pass.

We live not in our moments or our years: The present we fling from us like the rind Of some sweet future, which we after find Bitter to taste.

Nobody likes the ball low and away, but that's where you're going to get it from me. I been pitching it there 50 years, away from them. That way they can't hurt you. You keep the ball in the park.

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

Even the relatively small amount of trans fats are likely to be causing around 7,000 premature deaths from heart disease per year.

I was an overnight success all right, but 30 years is a long, long night.

My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead.

The cannon will not suffer any other sound to be heard for miles and for years around it.

When I'm in the street, the only people I notice are usually at least 70 years old, because they look really stylish.

Work while your strength and years permit you; crooked age will by-and-by come upon you with silent foot.

Congress can't take the year off, election or no election.

I want to surf better tomorrow. I want to surf better in 10 years. When I'm 50 I want to be a better surfer than I am now - for me it's a lifelong journey.

In 13 years I've come to the conclusion that I need to play for second or third place.

I haven't, in the 23 years that I have been in the uniformed services of the United States of America, ever violated an order - not one.

I've not only pursued the American dream, I've achieved it. I suppose we could say the last few years, I've also achieved the American nightmare.