Thirty Years Quotes

We cannot let the right wing roll back more than thirty years of social progress.

In the past thirty years we have learned more about the workings of the human brain than in all of previous history.

It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.

I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Yes it's her husband. She hasn't got over it. Died thirty years ago.

Well, acting is cheap; I knew all these actors who weren't in the Screen Actors Guild yet, and it happened that they were all just about thirty years old.

War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.

Hey, single malt scotch, youre thirty years old. When are you going to settle down and get married to my stomach?

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

I've been walking about London for the last thirty years, and I find something fresh in it every day.

I have lived some thirty years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

I'm much more introspective than I was, say, thirty years ago.

A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years.

Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.

You have not had thirty years' experience . . . You have had one year's experience 30 times.

In another thirty years people will laugh at anyone who tries to invent a language without closures, just as they'll laugh now at anyone who tries to invent a language without recursion.

I have only been here since 1996 but between 1966 and 1996 England had thirty years without foreign players and didn't win any more competitions in that time.

I wrote a thirty-second song that I couldn't finish for a year.

As an O.B. doctor of thirty years, and having delivered 4,000 babies, I can assure you life begins at conception.

[The] emperor of the West, the feeble and dissolute Valentinian, [had] reached his thirty-fifth year without attaining the age of reason or courage.

For the first time we have a weapon that nobody has used for thirty years. This gives me great hope for the human race.

Software development, like professional sports, has a way of making thirty-year-old men feel decrepit.

I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.

Though no one had been buried here for almost thirty years, the grass was mown by yours truly. I felt a tidy graveyard made a happy graveyard.

My interests are different now than they were thirty years ago.

To me, when something is classic, whether it came out today or thirty years ago, it falls all in the same pot.

If you've lived in a dictatorship for thirty years, you're used to people lying to you.

I've said for thirty years that capitalism is an exhausted system. But now you can see the handwriting everywhere. And one especially horrifying part is the fiscal crisis.

Middle age is when you realize that you'll never live long enough to try all the recipes you spent thirty years clipping out of newspapers and magazines.

Bob Dylan will be thirty years old this month..." "That's the most depressing thing I've ever heard.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

I teach child development and social policy as an undergraduate course, and I tell my students, "Look, on any of these issues, if you don't want to work on it for thirty years, don't start."

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

I have often argued that a poet more than thirty years old is simply an overgrown child. I begin to suspect that there may be some truth in it.

Thirty years people have been asking for a lawful system of immigration to end this lawlessness, and government on both parties have refused to give it to them.

For the last thirty years in my career I never know what I'm doing next.

I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!

It's always been Apple's goal to ship something we were proud of and something people would be proud to own, and I think that's still true from thirty years ago.

I've been making music for thirty-six years and, you know, I'm still just as in love with working on music now as I was thirty-six years ago.

Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

The past is good (as we all know), twenty, thirty years back everything was good, anyone can tell you that.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again; it has perhaps not been here so intensely in thirty years, not since the Nazis were prospering, but it is coming back.

At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.