I'm dreading it," says Corinne. "Somehow thirty-one sounds…

I didn't write any fiction until I was past thirty.

— Grace Paley

“Over the past thirty years we have thrown all this away.”

— Tony Judt

“An iron plow instead of wood meant you lived past thirty. It changed more than the depth of a furrow.”

— Richard Ben Sapir

The big difference between human happiness and sadness? Thirty-seven freakin' vibrations.

— Anonymous

“At thirty either you are perfect or nothing.”

— Aporva Kala

When a buddha is painted, not only a clay altar or lump of earth is used, but the thirty-two marks, a blade of grass,…

— Dogen

[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember,…

— Bess Truman

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

— Cynthia Asquith

It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you…

— Mark Twain

I really hate those Internet freaks who take each thirty minute bundle of joy and turn it into a cult game of Where's Wally.

— Danny Baker

I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before,…

— Anonymous

Thirty days is just about the right amount of time to add a new habit or subtract a habit - like watching the news…

— Matt Cutts

It wasn't really touching to be young; it was touching not to be young, because you had less of life left. Touching to be…

— Rose Macaulay

I've always been a late bloomer in some ways, and extremely precocious in other ways. When I was twenty I was living in New…

— Meghan Daum

There's more than 1700 emails out of the thirty three thousand Hillary Clinton emails that we've published, just about Libya. It's not that Libya…

— Julian Assange