Long Service Quotes

I was a Marine for 41 years, and it wasn't long enough. We enjoy putting on that uniform.

When I speak to my dad and my wife, and friends, they say it's 10 years at West Ham, you're leading the team out every week, when you sit back and really think about it, it's very rare.

I'm a teacher. My mother was a teacher. I spent 40 years as a teacher.

I did three tours in Vietnam. I guess a total of about almost two years.

For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.

When I became a soldier, I was drafted in 1937, and instead of being released two years later, I had to stay on because the war had started in the meantime. I was a soldier for more than eight years, as long a time as I was Chancellor.

I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

I've played for Liverpool's first-team pretty much every week for 16 years.

I thank Allah that I have been playing for Pakistan for a long time. This is a big honour for me; I had not even thought so.

21 years as CEO is a long time. I was and probably still am the longest serving CEO in America. Certainly I am in the media industry, bar none.

[Dan Fried] served under President [Barack] Obama and under President George W. Bush before that and under President [Bill] Clinton before that and under President George H.W. Bush before that and under [Ronald] Reagan before that and under [Jim] Carter before that. He has been there a long time.

As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare.

I will have some time off, do some media works, and I think, for 17 years, I have given everything I could.

In June 2010, after more than 38 years in uniform, in the midst of commanding a 46-nation coalition in a complex war in Afghanistan, my world changed suddenly - and profoundly. An article in 'Rolling Stone' magazine depicting me, and people I admired, in a manner that felt as unfamiliar as it was unfair, ignited a firestorm.

I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

People that work at the White House, they stay forever and love the job. Someone asked me, "Was there really a butler that was there for 40 years?" I said, "No, they're all there for 40 years."

My mother was a teacher for 40 years. She was part of the United Teachers of New Orleans.

You don't spend twenty years of your life in the service and not have a warm, nostalgic feeling left in you. It's a small service, and there's a lot of esprit de corps.

I played for 20 years for Sir Alex Ferguson, and he could be a scary man.

It has been the greatest privilege of my adult and public life to have served, for 32 years, as the Member of Parliament for our local Highlands and Islands communities.

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from the country for 50 years of work - which I thought was okay.

I spent 24 years in the United States Army.

Father served in the Air Force for 22 years.

You represent your country - that's the biggest honour ever. I had the privilege of doing that for more than 14 years.

I've worked for 55 years. I'm going to take a little time off, to tell you the truth. It's just that now in the last couple of weeks, Gelman is pouring it on. 'Farewell to Regis!' It's getting embarrassing.