Decades Quotes

I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

As wounded men may limp through life, so our war minds may not regain the balance of their thoughts for decades.

It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

I know of musicians who have played together for decades who hate each other. The Modern Jazz Quartet for one.

I know where we today in Europe have enormous influx of... in the last decades of people from Islamic countries, that our society has changed. That it has worsened for that reason.

King Fahd was a man of wisdom and a leader who commanded respect throughout the entire world. He was a friend and strong ally of the United States for decades.

For decades, free nations tolerated oppression in the Middle East for the sake of stability. In practice, this approach brought little stability and much oppression, so I have changed this policy.

... the decades looked on and didn't notice her passing. They stared from their fixed mounts across at each other and didn't see revolution striding between them, on her way to destiny.

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about them.

World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.

Lou Reed's music has been in the lives of millions of people all over the world for decades. He had a truly universal presence and was respected by musicians across all genres.

An adult has the opportunity to enjoy the wisdom gleaned from previous decades of living and experience.

Senator Kennedy inspired so many with his decades of service, so I can't think of a more fitting tribute then working to educate and motivate future generations of citizens and public servants alike.

When I hear Donald Trump say, "Make America great again", I wonder when he thought America ever was great." He has been criticizing our country for decades. He even criticized Ronald Reagan.

Decades go faster toward the end of a century.

The two world wars boosted American power and devastated potential rivals to an extent that could not have lasted more than a few decades.

I love ice, when I was in Antarctica many decades ago, I got to see a lot of ice. And the one thing that impressed me -because I love to talk about ice - is that it has a color.

Not only has the number of government employees multiplied in recent decades, but the rise of government unions further stacks the political odds against private citizens.

Madonna is the most famous woman on the planet and has been for a number of decades.

In the decades to come, the successful places will tend to be the smaller traditional towns and cities with viable farming hinterlands.

Ask almost anybody if they think the climate?s changed in the last couple of decades and they will all say ?yes? and give you lots of examples.

When you listen to Prince you have no idea what decade it's from. It's beyond time.

When he plays all the flowers swap colors and years and decades and centuries of rain pour back into the sky

The European Union has decades of experience in overcoming crises and has always emerged stronger after.

Decades, if not centuries are normally required for people to acquire the necessary disciplines and habits. In Britain, the road [to democratic government] took seven centuries to traverse.

I'm not prepared to make any multi-decade commitments.

My own life has in some ways been a decades-long tour of the sibling experience. I have full sibs, I have half-sibs, and for a time I had step-sibs.

It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn.

Decades ago, Gerhard Richter found a painterly philosopher's stone. Like Jackson Pollock before him, he discovered something that had been in painting all along, always overlooked or discounted.

After its hothouse incubation in the seventies, appropriation breathed important new life into art. This life flowered spectacularly over the decades - even if it's now close to aesthetic kudzu.

During the 1960s, we used twice as much oil as during the 1950s. And in each of those decades, more oil was consumed than in all of mankind's previous history.

There's no reason the nation of Africa cannot and should not join the ranks of the world's most prosperous nations in the near term, in the decades ahead. There is simply no reason.

Think about the decade after Iraq, not just the day after.

So a truthful assessment of how America is doing in the war on terror as a result of President Bush's war on Iraq is that we have been set back by decades.

There is no debating that, under President Obama, corporate profits are at their highest levels in decades.

I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the concentration of wealth in fewer and fewer hands.

People will be talking about the [Barack] Obama legacy for decades, and I wanted to include my voice in the analysis of this presidency.

I had many decades of me time and now I just don't have that anymore. There are days when I rail against it.

I think I take my style from all walks of life, and all generations and decades of life as well. I love mixing '50s with '80s and classic with punk.

I think there are good men and women in all decades. We've grown cynical. And look at what we do to all our heroes: Churchill, FDR, Kennedy, they all had affairs. But heroic things happen every day.

What I really hope for, ultimately, is that the closet will be a non-factor in American politics in a couple of decades.

For a long time, there has been lingering doubt among many Americans about integrity and fairness of elections. And it's not a new issue at all. If you look at polling data, it goes back decades.

Tell that to the BTK killer,” I said. “He was a churchgoer, raised two kids, married, and resisted the urge to kill for decades. He was a person, but he was a monster, too

A decade is a very long time to be away from somebody.

The consumption of information, films, music has been changing in recent decades. It's hard to know what will become the film that can not easily reach [audiences].

If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

I pre-dated the trend for large watches by about a decade

After decades of declining influence on the affairs of the world, there is once again a widespread consideration of spritual principles as an antidote to the pain of our times.