Decades Quotes

Care about understanding and before you know it, in just a few decades, you'll have a system of thinking that gives you answers whenever you ask.

Each moment in history is a fleeting time, precious and unique. But some stand out as moments of beginning, in which courses are set that shape decades or centuries.

I'd like to think of myself as the flavor of the decade.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

I feel that film is inevitably the medium of the future. It has been for years, decades, but more so now than ever.

One never comes into embarrassment, if one is ready to balance. To ask oneself never in embarrassment, what have you in these decades made.

Jazz has an audience all around the globe and has had for many decades, I think speaking of the United States, let's say that what we need is more of an official recognition.

Galileo got it wrong. The earth does not revolve around the sun. It revolves around you and has been doing so for decades. At least, this is the model you are using.

As a Latin man, obviously immigration has been a part of my culture for decades. [I] grew up understanding what you go through in order to come to this country and searching for that American dream.

In the last two or three decades, there's been a feminization of the man in popular media that I've never really understood.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

Sometimes a line of mathematical research extending through decades can be thought of as one long conversation in which many mathematicians take part. This is fortunately true at present.

I suffered from severe depression for over a decade. My condition deteriorated steadily. I was suicidal.

People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function.

It may be decades until we know what living in a state of constant distraction will do to us.

I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.

What drove me and kept me going over the decades? If I had to use a single word, it would be 'curiosity.

The United States has, unfortunately, been victimized by terrorism going back decades.

This [Judge Samuel Alito] may be one of the most significant or consequential nominations that the Senate will vote on since I've been here in the last three decades.

Whether you can go back in time is held in the grip of the law of quantum gravity. We are several decades away from a definitive understanding, 20 or 30 years, but it could be sooner than that.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

For decades, I have supported adoption, and have helped tens of thousands of children worldwide.

There's that thing about the '80s, the '40s and the '60s, and the '30s, the '50s and the '70s. Something about those odd decades in this century that weren't too pleasant.

A primary task of management in the developed countries in the decades ahead will be to make knowledge productive.

Every day I practise my flute. I've been doing it for decades and every day I find something new that inspires me for all the rest that I do in my days.

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

A pioneer in this genre [ writing about the refugee crisis] : the book A Seventh Man, by the great John Berger, decades ago evoked the lives of migrant workers in Europe.

To some, the '50s were a decade marked by the banal, the predictable.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.

Decades of Saddam’s rule made what could have been a fairly rich country, due to its oil reserves, into a very poor one.

In the last few decades, mankind has sinned terribly against the law of natural selection. We haven't just maintained life unworthy of life, we have even allowed it to multiply.

A very few musicians passed across all decades. In terms of trumpet playing, Louis Armstrong does it of course but Sweets [Edison] is right up there too. He is unique, in every sense of the term.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

Even if we were to stop putting out greenhouse gases right now, we'd still face decades of warming.

Nature stopped being natural decades ago.

I think, broadly speaking, the US military's role - US military activism in various parts of the Islamic world over the past several decades has been counterproductive.

For decades, the key question has been 'how valuable is the brand?' The key question moving forward is 'how valuable are your apps?'

We misread the Fifth Amendment [of Constitution] and have been misreading it for the past three decades.

I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.

What did Nabokov and Joyce have in common, apart from the poor teeth and the great prose? Exile, and decades of near pauperism.

We've been around for almost three decades now - there's about three generations of Bon Jovi fans.

Among the many factors that make a return to halcyon days of the first decades of the postwar era virtually impossible is the decline of clearly defined political leadership.

The greatest problem in Japanese politics over the last two decades is that we put off what needed to be done. We have to overcome that.

Change occurs slowly. Very often a legal change might take place but the cultural shift required to really accept its spirit lingers in the wings for decades.

... he preferred being stimulated to being bored.

It normally takes decades to build a brand... It's the forgetting of the old truth that allows a person to accept a new truth. You need to allow enough time for this forgetting to take place

Sally Field looks amazing in general, never mind her age! She's a phenomenally talented actress and has had a career spanning so many decades.

For many decades my relations with my parents constituted unfinished business. I had dealt with them through sheer avoidance and guilt.