30 Years Quotes

The key to ministry in any and every context, both now and for the last two thousand years, is missionary flexibility.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to these [individual and group] differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I'm still an amateur, of course, but I became rugby's first millionaire five years ago.

I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.

I'm sure that you could go back and make a graph showing that all the killings of black males increased in times of economic difficulty. As a matter of fact, a black man was lynched last year.

I don't linger on the fact that Dawn Fraser was a great swimmer 40 years ago. That was in the past. I did break 41 world records, but I don't live on that today.

Fifty years," I hackneyed, "is a long time." "Not when you're looking back at them," she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

Our moneyed men have ruled us for the past thirty years. Under the flag of the slaveholder they hoped to destroy our liberty.

Guys like Bin Laden have been responsible for injuring and maiming and murdering more Muslims than any foreign imperial power has in the last hundred years.

I was guaranteed a hundred thousand dollars a year for five years, which was big money in the early 60's. You think, acquiring that should cool you out, but for me it wasn't true.

No one can ever write about anything that happened to him after he was twelve years old.

It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

The older painting - well, it does have an effect all at once, I suppose, but it's of a lesser intensity than a lot of the American work in the last ten or fifteen years.

I was so shy when I was younger. When I first went to Liverpool I didn't say a word for a year.

Record labels have enjoyed a 100-year monopoly of selling plastic and now they're up against a different format.

After years of piecemeal reform the current welfare system is complex and unfair.

I couldn't walk for almost three years. That was the greatest thing that happened. Instead of dancing, I sang.

[To woman bragging about having kept her husband for seven years:] Don't worry, if you keep him long enough, he'll come back in style.

I was a member of the Politburo for seven years, a foreign minister.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

You get more churches burned down in the United States in the last two years than in the last hundred, because of the lack of understanding of culture and diversity and the beauty of it

I remember, in the winter of our first experiments, just seven years ago, looking on snow with new eyes.

In all my years of play, I never saw an ump deliberately make an unfair decision. They really called them as they saw 'em.

If those who are the enemies of innocent amusements had the direction of the world, they would take away the spring, and youth, the former from the year, the latter from human life.

The world has changed, and it's almost been 11 years. I have 975 employees. I have six restaurants. We haven't opened any new ones in almost three years.

I am finished with cities. I spent four years in New York, ten in Paris, and I was in Belgrade for a while. To me now they are just airports.

Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

'Show up at the desk' is one of the first rules of writing, but for 'Wolf Hall' I was about 30 years late.

My guess is that nuclear weapons will be used sometime in the next hundred years, but that their use is much more likely to be small and limited than widespread and unconstrained.

This is a choice I made 26 years ago when I joined the magazine. Vogue was in Italian but I wanted to speak to everyone so I thought of creating images that were made to talk.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Repentance may begin instantly, but reformation often requires a sphere of years.

That tree is very old, but I never saw prettier blossoms on it than it now bears. That tree grows new wood each year. Like that apple tree, I try to grow a new little wood each year.

I've been around two years shy of 50 years doing what I do. I am a musician.

The first sparrow of spring! The year beginning with younger hope than ever!

For many years I was a self-appointed inspector of snowstorms and rainstorms and did my duty faithfully, though I never received payment for it.

In 1833, protection was abandoned, and a tariff was established by which it was provided that we should, in a few years, have a system of merely revenue duties.

We have nine ships and in the next two years will have ten, eleven and twelve. So things are going very nicely and all because of that program that people thought was mindless and so forth.

I don't worry whether the period is contemporary or three hundred years ago. Human beings are all alike.

His motto is "Love Thy Neighbor". His neighbor is an 18 year old hooker.

To claim "humanitarian motives" when the motive is envy and its supposed appeasement, is a favorite rhetorical device of politicians today, and has been for at least a hundred and fifty years.

My memories of camp - I was four years old to eight years old - they're fond memories.

The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

I lived in Italy for three years and wanted no part of the country's disreputable way of life.

The last two years with the Eagles were pretty intense times. There was a lot of drinking and we were all getting high a lot. My parents were relieved when I got off the Eagles treadmill.

Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity.

I enjoy research; in fact research is so engaging that it would be easy to go on for years, and never write the novel at all.

I came to Ireland 20 years ago as a student, hitch-hiking round for a week and staying in Dublin.

Three years ago I came to Florida without a nickel in my pocket. Now I've got a nickel in my pocket

In anger, you look ten years older.