30 Years Quotes

[M]ore Americans work for federal, state or local government than work in any form of manufacturing. We crossed that Rubicon about 10 years ago.

A curve ball is not something you can pick up overnight. It took me years to perfect mine.

A boy, by the age of 3 years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly-his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work.

I'd been painting rats for three years before someone said 'that's clever it's an anagram of art' and I had to pretend I'd known that all along.

Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago.

It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.

Perhaps I should be flattered that somebody imagines the name is worth so much, especially since my parents gave me the same name 42 years ago for free.

Dogwoods are great optimists. Daffodils wait and see, crouching firmly underground just in case spring doesn't come this year, but dogwoods have faith.

A cynic might conclude that the real purpose of the $500 million-a-year implant business is the implantation of fat in the bellies and rumps of underemployed plastic surgeons.

We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe.

Do people who believe in reincarnation ever say, Darn, I'm still writing the year 1612 on my checks!

Fifty years from now I'll be just three inches of type in a record book.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

The five warmest years over the last century occurred in the last eight years.

When these parenting years have passed, something precious will have flickered and gone out of my life. Thus, I am resolved to enjoy every day that remains in this fathering era.

If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

The space elevator will be built about 50 years after everyone stops laughing.

I plan on winning the Super Bowl next year.

I began playing in the senior circuit when I was 15 and won the world senior amateur title the same year.

Best friends are made are made through smiles and tears, and sometimes that fades away through miles and years.

We've seen more reform in the last year than we've seen in decades, and we haven't spent a dime yet. It's staggering how the Recovery Act is driving change.

If you wrote a page a day, at the end of the year you would have a book. Whether it's any good or not is beside the point, but you would have a book, instead of just talking about it all the time.

Freddie Green has been my right arm for thirty years. And if he leaves the band one day, I'll probably leave with him.

Through years of experience I have found that air offers less resistance than dirt.

A couple of years after I arrived in Hollywood, everything that was Latino was fashionable, and years after, my thought is that we're not fashionable anymore. We're here to stay.

I'd also gone through an entire year of celibacy based on my feeling that lust was the direct cause of birth which was the direct cause of suffering and death.

I spent a year in a 12-step program, really committed, because I could not believe what had happened - that I might have killed myself.

We have put over £2bn in the last three years into counter-terrorism and we are developing the electronic border surveillance and identity cards

Once someone gave me a picture and I wrote 'Do good in school.' I looked up and the guy was 78 years old

We were in a relationship for eight years, and we maybe saw each other, total, for a year.

He (Mickey Mantle) should lead the league in everything. With his combination of speed and power he should win the triple batting crown every year. In fact, he should do anything he wants to do.

Been in this game one-hundred years, but I see new ways to lose 'em I never knew existed before.

When the Israeli leaders launched their expansionist war in June 1967 they never envisaged that 40 years later they would still be haunted by the consequences.

My art is just an effort to express the truth of my being in gesture and movement. It has taken me long years to find even one absolutely true movement.

Twenty years ago the computer was a babbling box. Now it is a boasting beast.

I was a barefoot earth child for a couple of years.

God is a sure paymaster. He may not pay at the end of every week, or month, or year, but I charge you remember that He pays in the end.

Steve Jobs has said that Xwindows is brain-damamged and will disappear in two years. He got it half-right.

On her son Rene: Oh my God, when he's 20 years old what's going to happen to me? I'm gonna marry him.

Every seven years, I sit down and make a whole new plan.

Idleness makes hours pass slowly and years swiftly. Activity makes the hours short and the years long.

The 'defense' budget is three quarters of a trillion dollars. Profits went up last year well over 25%. I guarantee you: when war becomes that profitable, we're going to see more of it.

New Year's Eve always terrifies me.

Nixon was a professional politician, and I despised everything he stood for -- but if he were running for president this year against the evil Bush-Cheney gang, I would happily vote for him.

Many merry Christmases, many happy New Years. Unbroken friendships, great accumulations of cheerful recollections and affections on earth, and heaven for us all.

The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase.

A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side - which is exactly what I felt like when I rode it down the street in a tie-dyed dress.

I had a bad back for a couple of years. I had to do a lot of physiotherapy for it. What I couldn't understand at the time was why the therapists had me doing a lot of stomach work.

I was seven years old when I learnt the back somi on beam.

I made 'Rio Bravo' with John Wayne. It worked out pretty well and we both liked it, so a few years later we decided to make it again. Worked out pretty good that time, too.