30 Years Quotes
I've been accustomed to being famous and having a certain level of attention for 14 years, but in the last few months, it's changed. It's like on the arcade game, I've gone up to the next level.
Loads of chemicals and hazardous wastes have been introduced into the atmosphere that didn't even exist in 1948. The environmental condition of the planet is far worse than it was 42 years ago.
My observation is that after one hundred and twenty years of modernisation since the opening of the country, present-day Japan is split between two opposite poles of ambiguity.
Know that you are the perfect age. Each year is special and precious, for you shall only live it once. Be comfortable with growing older.
I practice my saxophone three hours a day. I'm not saying I'm particularly special, but if you do something three hours a day for forty years, you get pretty good at it.
It worries me about our unwillingness to really address reforms and modernization in Medicare. This thing was designed 37 years ago. It has not evolved to keep pace with current medical technology.
Murphy Brown is doing better than I am. At least she knows she still has a job next year.
Nothing. I was confused for two years. I didn't understand anything and I'm still confused.
I started in 1946 in radio. I was ten years old. I was discovered singing in a school play. Someone was in the audience and it's six degrees of separation.
I haven't been able to slam-dunk the basketball for the past five years. Or, for the thirty-eight years before that, either.
As we enter this election year, let’s not forget the most important decision anyone can make-choosing Christ.
In all my years of counselling those near death, I've yet to hear anyone say they wish they had spent more time at the office
I've been doing Tai Chi on and off for 20 years. The fundamentals of all martial arts are the same.
When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid.
Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders
A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year. These make a merry christmas!
I was born in 1923 into a middle class Jewish family in Vienna, a few years after the end of World War I, which was disastrous from the Austrian point of view.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
I would not look to the United States Constitution if I were drafting a constitution in the year 2012.
When Shah Rukh stated, “Bhootnath... will be among the top three hits of the year!”, I told him, “Aapke moonh mein dudh, ghee, shakkar sab!
Over the years since I left home, I have kept thinking about the people I grew up with and about our way of life. I realize how much the bond that held us had to do with food.
Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.
Each year in Africa about two and a half million people go blind...and they just go blind... they sit around in their huts.
The year is made up of minutes. Let these be watched as having been dedicated to God. It is in the sanctification of the small that hallowing of the large is secure.
Compared to 10 years ago the primary motivation for defection has gone from food, to freedom.
We would be 1,500 years ahead if it hadn't been for the church dragging science back by its coattails and burning our best minds at the stake.
I had now arrived at my seventeenth year, and had attained my full height, a fraction over six feet. I was well endowed with youthful energy, and was of an extremely sanguine temperament.
For almost thirty years I repeatedly saw one and the same dream: I would arrive in Vienna at long last. I would feel really happy, for I was returning to my serene childhood.
We have got to change the political culture in America. We need a political revolution. That means we are working on politics not just three weeks before an election but 365 days a year.
And men, whose reason long was blind, From cells of madness unconfined, Oft lose whole years of darker mind.
The Coalition for International Justice estimated that 450,000 people in Darfur have died since the deadly genocide began some three years ago.
The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
In a democracy sovereignity is vested in a majority; and a majority is not only, at best, an ignorant, foolish and emotional mob, but shifts continually and alters from year to year.
I did not feel 'evil' when I wrote advertisements for Puerto Rico. They helped attract industry and tourists to a country which had been living on the edge of starvation for 400 years.
No one ever sees the sleepless nights, the years of studying and 14-hour days earning your dues. I spent three years isolated in an academic environment to be the best actor I could.
If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven?
A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
Nearly two and a half million people die every year that are on the voter rolls. So it takes time to get dead people off the voter rolls.
The Bible definitely is infallible, how else could it survive so many years of bad preaching?
I'm 74 years old and even though I may be a bit of a rascal, 33 girls in two months seems to me too much even for a 30-year-old.
Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years.
