Quotes About Decades

In the decades since my youth, I've witnessed the explosion of fatherless families and an exponential increase in illiteracy and crime.

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.

No, I like today's cinema a lot. But I've spent so many decades only making movies. There's so much that I still want to do. Like, live. It's only up to me.

There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.

Proud parents document the arrival and growth of their future CIA officer in all forms of social media that the world can access for decades to come.

I write songs with melodies, which have sold for decades.

another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time.

There is a racial element: It's undeniable. We've had inequitable funding of schools for decades in the state of Michigan.

Between the '80s with The Midnight Express and the '90s with The Heavenly Bodies, and then in the 2000s on the reunions with The Midnights, I think only Bobo Brazil and The Sheik had a longer-running rivalry.

For decades, I have been a militant anti-declinist in terms of America's place in the world.

in previous decades a chemical company took to the Supreme Court a case asserting its Fourth Amendment "right to privacy" from the Environmental Protection Agency's snooping into its illegal chemical discharges.

Montañas, resistencias, creadores de decenios destructores... tu expectativa de suicidio que continuamente hace caso omiso de ti.

Call-by-reference went out of fashion in language design a couple of decades ago because of the possibility for unintended consequences.

Bill was the Cubs fan the whole nation looked to in the moment of victory: he was shocked and overjoyed and relieved of the weight he had been carrying around for decades. "I've been imagining this for a long time," Bill said. With the

The European peninsula was occupied by the United States and the Soviet Union, its sovereignty compromised. Over the next decades its empire would disintegrate and its global power disappear.

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

In our case, one of my earliest experiences working in the company was being asked to be on Ted Turner's board, and I saw that the value creation from owning networks was stunning - new channels, international opportunities, synergy, many things that Turner Broadcasting built for decades.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

I don't lose my temper often; about once every twenty years perhaps.

I see the level of sophistication and knowledge about business growing dramatically. Several decades ago, only a few companies thought about international business.

When the USS New Jersey is commissioned, it will be a source of pride for everyone in our state for decades.

The South: What is this place? What's different about it? Is it different anymore? Good questions. Old ones, too. People have been asking them for decades. Some of us even make our living by asking them, but we still don't agree about the answers.

The much greater crimes of the Soviet Gulags occurred over decades and cost millions of lives.

If we look decades ago, we know that NATO allies contributed a lot of equipment close to the border of the Soviet Union.