Thirty Years Quotes - Page 5

• [Mark] Twain is pointing at you. You, the reader of the book one hundred and thirty years ago and today. That is what has made it a great American novel and the most widely read book in American Literature around the world today.

  Hal Holbrook

  Book, Years, Literature

  "BWW Interviews: Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

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• Thirty years ago, interracial marriage was considered to be wrong by the laws of God. Now your society finds it common. The spiritual objections around it were either dropped or "rewritten" by those divinely inspired and authorized to do so. Therefore, your actual interpretations of the instructions from God changed with your society's tolerance level - an interesting thing, indeed, how the interpretations of God seem to change regularly to match a changing culture!

  Lee Carroll

  Spiritual, Years, Law

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• 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.

  Michael Scott

  Thinking, Years, Apples

  "EXCLUSIVE: Interview With Apple's First CEO Michael Scott". Interview with Jay Yarow, www.businessinsider.com.au. May 25, 2011.

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• The horse and mule live thirty years And never know of wine and beers. The goat and sheep at twenty die Without a taste of scotch or rye. The cow drinks water by the ton And at eighteen is mostly done. The dog at fifteen cashes in Without the aid of rum or gin. The modest, sober, bone-dry hen Lays eggs for noggs and dies at ten. But sinful, ginful, rum-soaked men Survive three-score years and ten. And some of us, though mighty few Stay pickled 'til we're ninety-two.

  Charles Gavan Duffy

  Dog, Horse, Wine

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• So, it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, forever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? Thirty years from now, forty years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him- go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again, if I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Notebook, Thinking, Years

  "The Notebook". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Twenty or thirty years ago, in the army, we had a lot of obscure adventures, and years later we tell them at parties, and suddenly we realize that those two very difficult years of our lives have become lumped together into a few episodes that have lodged in our memory in a standardized form, and are always told in a standardized way, in the same words. But in fact that lump of memories has nothing whatsoever to do with our experience of those two years in the army and what it has made of us.

  Vaclav Havel

  Memories, Party, Adventure

  "Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Hvížďala". Book by Václav Havel, translated by Paul Wilson. Chapter 4: "Public Enemy", 1990.

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

  Ron Paul

  Baby, Years, Doctors

  "Values Voter Presidential Debate". www.keyesarchives.com. September 17, 2007.

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

  Peter Kropotkin

  War, Hands, Years

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• It was not noisy prejudice that caused the work of Mendel to lie dead for thirty years, but the sheer inability of contemporary opinion to distinguish between a new idea and nonsense.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Lying, Hard Work, Ideas

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• 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.

  Mark Twain

  Men, Years, Wife

  Mark Twain (2012). “Autobiographical Writings: A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic”, p.417, Penguin

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• 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.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Senior, Learning

  'Walden' (1854) 'Economy'

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• So. You refuse my money, you serve me thirty-year-old Highland Park scotch, and we've been in the same room for approximately five minutes, yet none of my bones are broken. This leads me to believe that your back is against the wall and you desperately need me for something. I'm dying to know what that is.

  Ilona Andrews

  Wall, Believe, Scotch

  Ilona Andrews (2013). “Magic Rises: A Kate Daniels Novel”, p.36, Penguin

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Lonely, Loneliness, Spring

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• John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: "I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

  Dale Carnegie

  Years, Names, Facts

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

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• 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.

  Sylvia Plath

  Years, Oracles, Thirty

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Colossus: and Other Poems”, p.26, Vintage

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Confused, Fall, Said Life

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2016). “(The Great Gatsby)”, p.70, F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

  Neal Stephenson

  Sports, Men, Years

  Neal Stephenson (2003). “Snow Crash”, p.56, Spectra

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• 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.

  Kim Harrison

  Years, Grass, Thirty

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• I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Goodbye, Children, Stupid

  Interview with Michael Cavna, voices.washingtonpost.com. October 22, 2008.

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• About thirty years ago there was much talk that geologists ought only to observe and not theorise; and I well remember some one saying that at this rate a man might as well go into a gravel-pit and count the pebbles and describe the colours. How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Men, Views

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.681, Broadview Press

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• That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

  Mark Twain

  Science, Mountain Ranges, Years

  Mark Twain (2015). “Mark Twain's Essays: Top Essays”, p.177, 谷月社

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• In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.

  Craig Kilborn

  Boston, Years, Massachusetts

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• Thirty years ago, there was definitely a huge difference between men and women, and the man wanting to feel like the protector, and not scare the wife

  Robin Tunney

  Women, Years, Differences

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• A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

  Lew Wallace

  Birthday, Summer, Men

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii

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• Thirty years ago, about 80% of a company's assets resided in its plant and equipment, with 20% in the knowledge of its people. Today, the reverse is true. The knowledge of our staff is our principal asset

  Susan Rice

  Happy, Business, Years

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