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Quotes About Decades

The welfare state, which grew out of post-war solidarity, has for decades been based on the principle that those who pay into the system are entitled to expect that the safety net will be there for them when they fall on hard times.
~ Emily Thornberry
The fake news is - I mean, as a tool of warfare - has been there for decades and decades and decades. It was never very well done until, really, the Ukraine, though I would say that the Russians used to complain about fake things to say the State Department.
~ Toomas Hendrik Ilves
The real problem with the Republican Party is that for decades it has shifted constantly to the right politically. Consequently, the Republican Party is picking up a very different demographic than it used to, a less well-educated demographic of people who are more prone to authoritarianism.
~ Richard Painter
There is a clear matter that I am not a practicing physician; I have never been a practitioner; everybody has known for decades.
~ Robert Jarvik
Each decade, I've lived in that decade, so I could easily shed the '20s, the '30s, the '40s.
~ Francesca Annis
I love 'Shameless' as a fan. But I love lots of television. And as an ensemble, I have never seen a group of people put on screen what 'Shameless' - the 'Shameless' cast as an ensemble and as individuals - in decades.
~ Shanola Hampton
Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.
~ Steve Forbert
I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
~ Orson Scott Card
I have been a practitioner of tough politics for many decades. There is little that amazes me and even less that shocks me.
~ Ed Rollins
We went a few decades without a good mullet on TV, so I'm happy to bring it back.
~ Josh McDermitt
The goal, I think, of American education, for decades, and across many, many scholars, was basically to teach people broad lessons in how to live life, how to engage life, how to essentially be effective citizens and effective people.
~ James Heckman
For decades, there has been this assumption that children played and adults didn't. That's rubbish.
~ Brian Sutton-Smith
My family has always made Chicago our home, and I care deeply about the values our company has espoused for decades.
~ Linda Johnson Rice
I have a little bit of experience going in and playing a character - I played a character on 'Smallville' that had been established for decades and decades before I took it.
~ Justin Hartley
To shoot a movie that takes place in three decades in 30 days is a lot on the hair and make-up team.
~ Sebastian Stan
It's been two decades. I feel blessed that I'm still working, and people still want to see me.
~ Neeru Bajwa
I tried to salvage the situation with the Republican Party for a long time. We've had for decades a departure from the fundamental values of the Republican Party and from America.
~ Richard Painter
'War and Peas' by Michael Foreman, one of the great British children's illustrators. His watercolours are so lovely you could almost eat them, just as members of the target audience have been trying to do for decades.
~ Tobias Hill
I taught at the FBI for four decades - how to think outside of the box and deal with social engineering.
~ Frank Abagnale
I'm sure the Sixties Beatles were great. But I bet not as great as the Nineties Beatles.
~ Rob Sheffield
Call my cell." He whipped out a card and passed it over. "Here's my number." I didn't bother to look at it. "I'm guessing 666- 6666." "Oh, right. As if that number weren't snatched up decades ago.
~ Rob Thurman
eighteen-forties and fifties
~ Robert C. Tucker
the painful irony of your mother fighting for inclusion that doesn't include you is still decades away.
~ Laura Zigman
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
~ Laurell K. Hamilton