30 Years Quotes
In the long vista of the years to roll,\\ Let me not see my country's honor fade;\\ Oh! let me see our land retain its soul!\\ Her pride in Freedom, and not Freedom's shade.
The revival of Islam dates from the early years of the 20th century. It was brought about by their humiliation, by their sense of how low they'd fallen compared with the West.
It took me a long time to get selected as an astronaut. In fact, I applied for 20 years before I was selected.
Movies are brand new. Film is less than 150 years old. It's brand new, compared to any other art form, all of which are thousands of years old.
It's quite sad to see how many people I've known over that years that just die off, you know like wilted flowers. Well, there's something to be said for flowers in the dustbin.
Laugh often friends tho' passing years bring, sometimes, smiles and, sometimes, tears, for mirth forever warms and cheers. Laugh often!
If fans are going to turn on me because of this, they weren't my fans anyway. I couldn't betray a whole 25 years of record making and not do this. I had to.
It costs $30,000 to $50,000 per year to send someone to jail. You don't have to pay so much to send someone to school at Johns Hopkins.
Many years ago, I think I got my first insight on how an incredibly diverse team can work together and do astonishing things, and not just misunderstand each other and fight.
I look at 'The New York Review of Books.' It's what it has been for 35 or 40 years, which is a highly sophisticated vehicle for anti-American self-hatred.
On my return to Pittsburgh, I resolved to go back to the fundamental problems of electronic structure that I had contemplated abstractly many years earlier.
In the year 1857, passing through Washington on our return from the annual visit to Philadelphia, I had the distinguished honor of visiting a President for the first time.
After playing so many songs in churches for eight or nine years, I've learned what songs people react to. Then I just had fun with the arrangements. That's how this album came together.
In over 160 years of recorded baseball history, no team had ever won a championship this way.
Stop blaming your parents. If you're really angry at 60 years old, you're an idiot! You've got to work some of it out.
I built a career on negative reviews. I didn't get a good review ever until Fran Lebowitz gave me a good review in Interview. That was the first good review I got in 10 years.
We receive all we venture to give. And one of the things I've learned over the years is that giving is everything, and taking is nothing.
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
Ahh, Earth Day, the only day of the year where being able to hacky-sack will get you laid.
War that hasn't affected us here, in the way that you would imagine a five-year war would affect a country.
I'd love to go back and teach primary school. I used to teach fourth grade and fifth grade. I'd love to spend several years teaching kindergarten or maybe third grade.
I do think that we may be looking at a period in the next few years where the two-party system will fracture.
Leeds is a great club and it's been my home for years, even though I live in Middlesborough.
Chang Tzu tells us of a persevering man who after three laborious years mastered the art of dragon-slaying. For the rest of his days, he had not a single opportunity to test his skills.
Despite the rejection, and in violation of all the rules, I came back year after year.
I was 82 years old before Who's Who thought I was enough of a big shot to do a piece on me.
I was aware of Darwin's views fourteen years before I adopted them, and I have done so solely and entirely from an independent study of plants themselves.
All that is happening in art is part of a process of exploration and discovery. I hope to live for a few more years so that I can catch glimpses of the oncoming future.
I'm just going to put out three or four releases a year and make it so that if you like the Desert Sessions, then you'll definitely like everything else.
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
I have a completely new knee. It's brilliant. I am not feeling my age at all. I feel about 43, a willowy blonde 43 years old with long legs.
It can't possibly last for years and browsing has its limits. Only a certain amount is healthy or wise.
Life is full of wonderful passions that come and go over the years, but the only one that will never let you down is reading.
The Smythe-Smith musicale. Thankfully, it came around just once per year, because Hyacinth was quite certain it would take a full twelve months for her ears to recover.
I went away when I was 9 to a ballet school. I thought I wanted to be a dancer, but eight years of ballet cured me of that.
My life in the past 20 years has changed. I don't count days anymore, I count the hours, the minutes, the seconds.
Well there are a lot of things I like to eat but at this time of year I'm finding I'm making fig and chèvre salad at least once a week and that's a combo that's hard to beat.
Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor.
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.
There's a sketch where we're playing two terrorists in a cave, and my terrorist is very frustrated as to why we haven't flown a plane into a building in 13 years.
The fact that I get to do what I love and 14 years in, I'm still doing it - I don't know how anything could get better.