30 Years Quotes

All I want is that Americans still be able to read the alphabet in a hundred years. I am not very ambitious.

Anyone who's 71 years old would look ridiculous singing rock.

When I replied that I loved her too in that way, I was the liar, not she, for I never lose the consciousness of time: to me the present is never here: it is always last year or next week.

I had written childrens books for 14 years before I published Wicked. And none of them were poorly reviewed, and none of them sold enough for me to be able to buy a bed.

With an annual investment of $66 billion by 2007, we can save 8 million lives each year.

For eight years I did effects for other movies until I got my movie made

I've known Shawn for several years. And he's just an amazing talent. He's a great writer, a marvelous, marvelous guitar player, and plays really good fiddle.

People are always asking me what the world will be like economically in the year 2000. I do know this: in the year 2000, no matter what else happens, there will still be good food in France.

Anyway, I've never been captain in 16 years in the NHL. But that didn't stop me being a leader in my own way.

There's many more films being made in America than there are in Australia. You make four hundred and fifty films a year, we make twenty-five.

For the past ten years I have had no financial problems.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.

For the Fall of the year is more than three months bounded by an equinox and a solstice. It is a summing up without the finality of year's end.

We gotta control inflation, quit spending our money on everything. But this years tax increase, why it's the biggest in history.

Years fly by, but the heart stays in the same place.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

Every where the years bring to all enough of sin and sorrow; but in slavery the very dawn of life is darkened by these shadows

In anger, you look ten years older.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

We're traditional and don't do cutting-edge styles, but after 17 years we're holding our own.

At 3 years old, I was telling people that I was going to be a star. I never had a plan B. And I've never compromised my integrity to get what I have.

I have seen Yunho for 6 years, I know everything about him from his personality to his body.

The average American family head will be forced to do twenty years' labor to pay taxes in his or her lifetime.

So by the time I got to Michigan I was a stutterer. I couldn't talk. So my first year of school was my first mute year and then those mute years continued until I got to high school.

Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?

As an example, one of the schools I have been studying is too small to compete effectively in most sports, but participates with vigor each year in the state music contests.