Decades Quotes

With longer life spans and better health and education, many feel that giving birth to a baby a mere couple of decades after they themselves were in the cradle is a little premature.

The Italian economy has been held back for decades.

Nothing evades our attention as persistently as that which we take for granted... the decades roll on without even a suggestion that perhaps the whole matter must be rethought

I've been doing the Millarworld stuff for decades, and everybody seems really happy that's working on it.

What kind of economy grows for decades on end but doesn't allow most of the population to share in the gains from that growth?

I think the neoatheists have set atheism back a few decades. And I'm a self-described atheist.

The fundamental landscape of biology is undergoing a major upheaval, much as it did in the first decades of the 20th Century. This upheaval will take time to fully reveal its implications.

There have been so many interpretations of both Batman and the Joker in the comic books themselves over the decades, from one extreme to the next, and in the media, from one extreme to the next.

The sad thing is many people learn how to manage money after they've made a lot of financial mistakes, some that take decades to fix.

We are slowly isolating the genes involved with the aging process. We do not have the fountain of youth, but I think, in the coming decades, we will unravel the aging process at the genetic level.

Look the, the American worker has been losing - for decades now. We've seen manufacturing in decline here in the industrial Midwest.

You cannot apply your high standards to a country [Egypt] burdened with decades of autocratic rule. Our democracy is still in its infancy.

Popular culture, in all its crudeness, is the output of liberals. It is liberalism that for decades has rejected any protest as 'censorship' or 'McCarthyism.'

Though liberals have portrayed themselves throughout the past several decades as champions of the homeless, they are actually guilty of having created and perpetuated their condition.

This quake, tsunami and the nuclear accident are the biggest crises for Japan [in decades] ... We will continue to handle it in a state of maximum alert.

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

The greatest explorer of recent decades is not even human.

People might like to think a war is done when a cease fire is signed, but for most people who lived through a war it goes on for decades.

The rise of populist parties such as the Five Star Movement in Italy and the Front National in France are rocking the political certainties of the last decades. And that also affects the economy.

There has been corruption in the Belgian civil service and at government level for decades. The Royal family do what they can to hold things together, and they don't do a bad job.

Technologies for stimulating the brain and controlling the mind can have benefits, but they have a dark side that military and intelligence planners have been exploiting for decades

I've been living out of a suitcase for over a decade.

I know parts of all the decades come in and out of fashion, but you never get to wear an entire outfit exactly how it was.

My fondness for extended monologue might have been encouraged by two decades of writing stage and radio dramas.

It's taken years for people to figure out how to make good content with a gamepad, even though they've been using gamepads for decades to make traditional games.

Decades later I would look into my father's eyes and try to reach past the murkiness of Alzheimer's with my words, my apology, hoping that in his heart he heard me and understood.

I haven't done any translating for decades now. It's something I did when I was young.

I have been typecast in my career, although the type changes with the decades.

Decades of providing technology in growing volume and at decreasing costs have driven great gains for developing nations, communities and people worldwide, but there is still much to do.

The simple combination of letters and sounds you select as a name for your baby can result in a life of carefree coolness or decades of expensive therapy. Hi, I'm Jake versus Hi, I'm... Tapioca

It will take a decade or two, but fundamentalism is going to burn itself.

I have very much enjoyed being in the music business in different roles through five different decades.

Pirate historians have now discovered social history, the branch of history which in the last two decades or so has been the most dynamic and inventive, in both senses of the word.

A collection, for me, is a book of very diverse stories that somehow speak to each other, across wide geography, across time, years, decades.

A child of today can detect a lie quicker than the wisest adult of two decades ago. When I want to know what is true, I ask my children.

I have worked for three decades as a staunch advocate of building a big tent party that includes both pro-choice and pro-life Republicans.

I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.

If I were to look at foreign policy, I would say John McCain has been wrong on just about everything over the last four decades.

We, as a country, have not seen a significant change in immigration policy in nearly two decades, even though all Americans agree that current immigration policy is outdated and malfunctioning.

Giving birth to something that could possibly change the lives of millions of people for possibly decades, hundreds of years, whatever the length of time the run is, is a great feeling.

Part of the reason we like democracy is it's the portfolio of decades, which is to say you don't also get the disastrous dictator who completely destroys a society, engages you in wars and so forth.

The case against Jeff Sessions was threadbare three decades ago. It's based on hearsay and innuendo and a joke he made about the Klan.

I start phone calls at 4 A.M. to cheer people up. The housebound, people in the hospital. People who, after decades, still can't get over what happened 10 or 15 years ago.

I suppose every decade gets the music it deserves.

Tape is the archiving champ and has been for decades. Reliable, less expensive than disks and available in large-scale robotic systems that store petabytes.

There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

My talent is getting things to work that people think are many decades in the future. I say we can make them happen now.

For decades, the journalistic norm had been that the private lives of public officials remained private unless that life impinged on public performance.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.