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Forty Years Quotes

Looking back across four decades of change.

These forty years quotes compare a scientist's long career path with a family that still finds a past event hard to discuss even decades later. See our Age quotes for related reflections.

There were exceptions, a couple of families that just plain didn't want to even think about it, although forty years had passed but mostly the people were very interested in talking about it.

Quotes by Walter Lord

After forty years in the lab, I was asked in 1991 to become president of The Rockefeller University. Unlike a working scientist, being president for seven years provided an opportunity to interact with scientists in many different fields and broadened...

Quotes by Torsten Wiesel

Today's recording techniques would have been regarded as science fiction forty years ago.

Quotes by Tony Visconti

I am a divorced child, of divided, uncertain background. Within this division I - supposed fruit of their love - no longer exist. It happened nearly forty years ago, yet to me, nothing is sadder than my parents' divorce.

Quotes by Sylvia Kristel

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It is the nobility of their style which will make our writers of 1840 unreadable forty years from now.

Quotes by Stendhal

I shot film with the Coen brothers on 'Hail, Caesar!' That's fine. I'm sentimental about film; I've shot film for forty years or something.

Quotes by Roger Deakins

I'll think about things for thirty or forty years before I'll write it.

Quotes by Richard Brautigan

May I say, finally, that I have no illusions of grandeur; quite to the contrary, I am very humble in my knowledge that through forty years of my life my life has been an open book of service to my...

Quotes by Ralph Thomas Walker

The person who takes the oath of office in the next four months will shape not just the next four years, but the next forty years of our nation. In these next four years, we need proven leadership, proven judgment...

Quotes by Rahm Emanuel

Age Quotes

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

Quotes by Patrick Macnee

Even when you write it, someone's got to play it. So if you can play it and bypass all the rest of the things, you're still doing as great as someone that has spent forty years trying to find out...

Quotes by Ornette Coleman

A mere forty years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.

Quotes by Newt Gingrich

I have always been making art from an early age but for nearly forty years did computer programming to earn a living. I bought a house and put my wife and three children through college. Now that diversion is over...

Quotes by Mike Thompson

The belief that there are other life forms in the universe is a matter of faith. There is not a single shred of evidence for any other life forms, and in forty years of searching, none has been discovered. There...

Quotes by Michael Crichton

Alive Quotes

I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years...

Quotes by Marie Helvin

Now, forty years after his passing, Winston Churchill is still quoted, read, revered, and referred to as much, if not more, than when he was alive.

Quotes by Mac Thornberry

Simply by not owning three medium-sized castles in Tuscany I have saved enough money in the last forty years on insurance premiums alone to buy a medium-sized castle in Tuscany.

Quotes by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.

Quotes by Larry David

Something I'll always remember - when I was a kid, I shook hands with Orville Wright. Forty years later, I shook hands with Neil Armstrong. The guy that invented the airplane and the guy that walked on the moon. In...

Quotes by Jonathan Winters

Alone Quotes

Sexism is alive and well! We were saying this forty years ago. I'm an optimist, so I like to think we've progressed in some ways - in Australia, we get equal pay.

Quotes by Jacki Weaver

Frequently Asked Questions

What kinds of forty-year spans appear in these quotes?
They include a scientific career, a family event still hard to discuss, and broad technological and cultural change over four decades.
Is there a quote about entering academic leadership?
Yes, one describes moving from decades in a research lab into a university presidency, contrasting hands-on science with institutional leadership.
Do these quotes address how technology has changed?
Yes, one notes that today's recording methods would have seemed impossibly futuristic to someone four decades earlier.
Is there a quote connecting forty years to freedom?
Yes, one uses the emergence of a new sport forty years ago as an example of freedom producing things no official planner would have invented.
How does this topic relate to Alone quotes?
Families sometimes carry unspoken memories for decades, a theme that connects well to our Alone quotes.

From recording technology to the invention of new sports, this set shows how unrecognizable forty years can make the ordinary world feel. Pair it with our Alive or Alone quotes.