30 Years Quotes

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

Things that would shock us years ago are like nothing now.

I was 15 years old at university, studying economics and philosophy, and I saw a retrospective of Australian film. They were very raw. 'Picnic at Hanging Rock,' 'Gallipoli;' they were fantastic.

Well I was on the jury duty on the Deauville Film Festival, a few years ago.

My first memories are from when I was very little, maybe three or four years old playing in my neighbourhood at home. I can picture myself with the ball at my feet from a very young age.

A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come.

There's no more delicious irony on the face of the Earth than environmental protesters being led away in plastic handcuffs that have a biodegradability horizon line of, like, 40,000 years.

I've learned over the years that identity has a whole lot less to do with location or other people's expectations than with your own sense of self and self-confidence.

I don't know what the big deal is about old age. Old people who shine from the inside look 10 to 20 years younger.

When I was 14 years old, I decided I could cook. It was either that or puberty.

If you look up and no one who's around you has been around you for the past 20 years, and they're all new people, I think that's a problem.

... For such as truly love the world, a thousand years would fade like the dream of one night.

I'm someone who lived in a war for five years. I received bombs on my head every day of my childhood. Did that stop me from living? Did that stop me from laughing?

No matter what time of year it's always funny when a person walks by me dressed in religious garb and I say Happy Halloween!

A few years ago, (Barack Obama) would have been getting us coffee.

The moment this brilliant young producer Miss Verity Lambert started telling me about Doctor Who, I was hooked. I remember telling her, This is going to run for five years. And look what's happened!

I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.

The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

What were we doing here? Traveling hundreds or thousands of light-years, to break our hearts?

In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at us.

Who would have guessed that the shots heard 'round the world 225 years ago would fall on deaf ears in a nation now more sympathetic to the gun-grabbing Redcoat than the gun-bearing rebel?

I been in the game for 10 years making rap tunes... Ever since honeys was wearing Sassoons.

Her hat is a creation that will never go out of style; it will just look ridiculous year after year.

I've been a vegetarian for years and years. I'm not judgemental about others who aren't, I just feel I cannot eat or wear living creatures.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

When a man thinks he has got a good deal of strength, and is self-confident, you may look for his downfall. It may be years before it comes to light, but it is already commenced.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

God has been pleased to save us during the years of war that have already passed. We pray that He may be pleased to save us to the end. But we must do our part.

You can't dodge them all. I got hammered plenty of times through the years. But you just get up and keep playing. I can tell you from experience, though. Sometimes it hurts like hell.

When I first went to New York I was right out of high school, I was 17 years old, and I had never seen a building over two stories high.

Detroit is saying that the hydrogen vehicle is the vehicle of the future. But it's 15 years from now.

Well over fifty years ago I was making radio loudspeakers and radio sets in Rochester, New York; pretty young and inexperienced; but we survived the depression.

It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.

I still have, I hope, a lot of years and there are still a lot of things I want to do.

Nefertiti, the most beautiful calico in the world, chose me as her own six short years ago.

So we believed that strategic alliances and partnerships were critical, and we did that for five years.

My parents tried so hard to do what they could to keep us in school, but school didn't last but four months out of the year and most of the time we didn't have clothes to wear.

I've been an assistant for seven years now and I haven't had one head coaching interview. I'm doing something wrong.

The nuclear industry is currently undergoing a rebirth. The uranium market will remain tight for at least the next three years.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.

I have written about 240 books and some short stories, too. It's taken me many years.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

No, we believed in ourselves all year. That's the position you want to be in.

One step at a time, over the years, as I sought to plumb the mystery of suffering (which cannot be plumbed), I began to see that there is a sense in which everything is a gift. Even my widowhood.

If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.

I can knit. I knit all year, day in, day out. It is my passion, and I rarely knit the same thing twice the same way.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effectively on behalf of all humanity

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