30 Years Quotes

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

And for the first time in hundreds of years, the night came alive with the music of dragons.

Ten years ago, the level was nowhere near what it is today. (on soccer in the United States)

These happy golden years are passing by, these happy golden years.

I’m always looking to improve. And every year I want to do better than the year before.

Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.

I don't feel a lack of hope. It's just disappointment that after all these years we're still fighting meaningless wars for a handful of people.

I was recording stuff with my dad when I was like five, six years old. I played with him on tour. I'd gone with him to Japan in '91, played some gigs, did a couple shows at the Albert Hall.

Last year I had a stroke. It left me in bad shape. I had to teach myself how to walk and talk all over again. It was a long hard fight. My speech is not perfect but I'm getting there.

It is better to spend one day contemplating the birth and death of all things than a hundred years never contemplating beginnings and endings.

After spending more than 17 years playing for the NBA, in the summertime, I always came back to community service and different basketball clinics.

I think there is a great deal to the idea of not doing a thing, but that when you do a thing, you don't do it in five minutes or in five hours, but in five years.

In the 45 years I've worked in casinos, I dreamed of being honored by an organization like the American Gaming Association, especially since I don't even have a hunting license.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

You could transfer Congress over to run Standard Oil or General Motors, and they would have both things bankrupt in two years.

Stockbrokers aren't too interested in a stock you can sit there for five years with.

The years from about eight to twelve constitute a unique period of human life.

I am 42 years old and I have $9000, and I am out of ideas. I've nothing to spend it on. I'm bored shitless. I will die with that $9000.

Now you get off that Pegasus and come down here and start acting your age!" "Honey, he's four thousand years old," Veronica said.

[...] evidence is now coming out showing that Egypt was colonized by Western people over 15,000 years ago.

And I played in jazz band as well during all three years in school.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

If you are British, you soon get used to people not loving you. The Irish remind us of offenses from 100 years ago. Perhaps we should react to what the French did to us even longer ago.

I was totally devastated for four years in the mid '60s when l tried to buck the tide.

It was the best 10 years of my career, in fact they are the only team I ever actually played for. That’s what happens when you play for Everton, you forget the rest, the rest means nothing.

Being married to a daughter of India is a natural complement of my being in this country for 30 years. My roots are very much in this country, even though I remain a Westerner.

The dream of having one's dream job turned into "Oh my God, I'll take any job. I've been out of work for two years now. I don't care what I do. I'll do anything because I don't have any money".

He's been on vacation for a year and month. Captain Kirk never left the helm when the Enterprise was under attack.

My wife's a lot younger than me ... thirty years difference . . . You should never marry a woman a lot younger than you ... Never.

When he's on fire, he is impossible to stop. He dribbles like a winger, but is still able to score 20 goals a year in the Premiership. (on Thierry Henry)

It's very hard, for example, to justify the thirty-four-year occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. It's very hard to justify 140 Israeli settlements and roughly 400,000 settlers.

If I walked back into the booth in the year 2025, I don't think it would have changed much. I think baseball would be played and managed pretty much the same as it is today. It's a great survivor.

Five years ago, when I was elected, I had the feeling that the president doesn't have much to do. I've realized, though, that this is not a rubber-stamp position.

Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.

There are some people who have been reading me for years, and they keep saying kind things about the writing. That's what you're writing for, to get people to respond to it.

Every person has only so much attention to give, and politics and government takes up only a fraction of what it did 25 years ago.

How do you beat an individual who hasn't been beaten in 13 years? With the help of others.

Whether you stay six weeks, six months or six years, always leave it better than you found it.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

Could America exist without an income tax? The idea seems radical, yet in truth America did just fine without a federal income tax for the first 126 years of her history.

Umpiring is best described as the profession of standing between two seven-year olds with one ice cream cone.

I'm a firm believer in everything going digital, in a matter of years. I wanted to kind of be one of the pioneers, one of the people that jump on that bandwagon early.

A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have been appointed an ambassador for the bicentenary celebrations of his birth next year.

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a vegetarian.

I think the exercise of trying to figure out how to simplify concepts has been incredibly helpful to me over the last 13 years of teaching and I hope my students have benefited from it.

I don't dislike my peers because they're still around and remind me of what I'm doing. I never liked them anyway. I never liked U2, the things they've done over the years.

My mother served me wine and water from the time I was 3 years old.

Over the years I have found that many of the richest people in the world began their lives with the habit of tithing.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

Of all the important relationships that Australia has with other countries, none has been more greatly transformed over the last 10 years than our relationship with China.