30 Years Quotes

It is only after years of struggle and deprivation that the young artist should touch color - and then only in the company of his betters.

I really wanted to write an adventure story, a murder-mystery that was set during the gold-rush years in New Zealand.

For years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. But not in the American Communists.

My first degree came years before my second. I had wanted to be a physicist, but I flunked calculus.

With care, and skill, and cunning art, She parried Time's malicious dart, And kept the years at bay, Till passion entered in her heart and aged her in a day!

I'd much rather dress like a 5 year old than a 21 year old. I'd much rather wear a puffy sleeved shirt than some low-cut top.

It is cruelty to children to keep five-year-olds sitting still, gazing into vacancy even for one hour at a time. We have little idea of the torture we thus inflict.

I go to see grand prix every year, and I watch every race on TV for sure. I probably go to three or four CART races and three or four Formula One races.

It’s about time a 55-year-old British woman is the heroine of an action movie. I may have to write it.

I grew up in poverty. For 25 years I was fed on aid.

One year I hit .291 and had to take a salary cut. If you hit .291 today, you'd own the franchise.

With every passing year, BEC proves that it still has surprises left for us.

Clearly, if Confederation is to survive another 100 years, Canada must find a national esprit de corps. Cohesion cannot depend indefinitely on hating Toronto.

There's been spying for years, there's been surveillance for years, and so forth, I'm not going to pass judgement on that, it's the nature of our society.

To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

You write a book like that you're fond of over the years, then you see that happen to it, it's like pissing in your father's beer.

God blessed me by putting me here for thirty-one years at Michigan and Trumbull.

In the twenty-one years I lived with my mother, we moved at least twenty times.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I have been ambitious to be a somebody from the time I was 5 years old

I haven't been to sleep for over a year. That's why I go to bed early. One needs more rest if one doesn't sleep.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

Sometimes the valley below is like a bowl filled up with fog. I can see hard green figs on two trees and pears on a tree just below me. A fine crop coming in. May summer last a hundred years.

There has not been a war in South America for fifty years, and I have every confidence that the countries of Central and South America are deeply in earnest in the maintenance of peace.

I guess you wouldn't dare to dream that you would get to the end of five years.

How many ideas have there been in the history of man which were unthinkable ten years before they appeared?

In the end all books are written for your friends.

My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.

I have a son, and I was married for twenty years, and I got divorced, and there's a new woman in my life, and my son is 18, and I'm interested to see how he's growing.

I became a general contractor in my early 20s. I have been in the business for over 35 years

Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.

Ozzy wanted to get us back together. It's been 20 years. We did a couple of songs during his farewell in 1992 and that got the ball rolling.

I did six years of planning to win the championship from Jack Dempsey.

But when I was twelve years old I caught my first strong glimpse of one of the fundamental forces of existence, whose votary I was destined to be for life - namely, Beauty.

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these trackless forests and boundless prairies, melting away at the approach of civilization.

Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years.

Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.

I spent years growing up being told what my sexuality was.

Years do not always make age.

The true history of my administration will be written 50 years from now, and you and I will not be around to see it.

It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.

One of the lessons I learned in all those years practicing karate is that progress only comes in small incremental portions.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

I would have hated to been locked into music for the last 20 years and not been able to have a family.

I think the lack of precision and deep focus is why it took me years to build up my work.

I feel like life is so special and so great, every year I feel like I learn more, and I grow, and I think it's exciting to grow up.

Men of great genius and large heart sow the seeds of a new degree of progress in the world, but they bear fruit only after many years.

I've had every advantage in the world, despite the 18 years of silence which were nobody's fault but mine.