Thirty Quotes · Page 7

The misery in war-torn Afghanistan is reminiscent of images from the Thirty Years' War

— Jurgen Habermas

Yeah, I don't mess with chicks younger. They got to be almost thirty.

— Mike Epps

And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.

— Sylvia Plath

“At twenty the will rules; at thirty the intellect; at forty the judgment.”

— Baltasar Gracián

Damn it all you can't have the crown of thorns and the thirty pieces of silver.

— Aneurin Bevan

I'd love to whip back to the 20s for thirty minutes, just to have a look.

— Dawn O'Porter

“Certainly, affairs should not even be thought of before you are thirty.”

— Marjorie Hillis

You cannot stop me; I spend thirty thousand men a month.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

Jamie, you know, you could go clear around the world and still come home wondering if the tuna fish sandwiches at Chock…

— Anonymous

Gravity disappears again, and we rise up off the floor like spooks from a grave. It's like the Rapture in here every…

— Mary Roach

Forty is ... an age at which people have histories and options. At thirty, they had perhaps less history. At fifty, perhaps…

— Ellen Goodman

I have never been able to see how a thirty-year old moron can vote more wisely than a fifteen-year old genius.

— Robert A. Heinlein

Fortunately, he'd found that most people were easy to locate at five thirty in the morning. .

— Patricia Briggs

Working from nine till five every day at something that gives you no pleasure just so that, after thirty years, you can…

— Paulo Coelho

Time flies when you're having fun, and I've been having fun for the last thirty years. Reflecting on the upcoming 30th anniversary…

— Pete Conrad

I tell myself that's what you get when you put thirty-one toilets on the most popular girl's front yard. People tend to…

— Kathryn Stockett

What makes you walk past thirty-thousand people without a second glance, and then you look at the thirty-thousandth-and-first person and know you'll…

— Jodi Picoult

Classical music gradually lost popularity because it is too complicated: you need twenty-five or thirty skilled musicians just to hum it properly.…

— Dave Barry

You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

As, however, the port in reality lies in thirty-two degrees thirty-four minutes, according to the observations that have been made, they went…

— Junipero Serra

Face the facts, all these environmental organizations are thirty, forty, fifty years old. They have big buildings, big obligations, big staffs. They…

— Michael Crichton

The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked…

— Vincent Van Gogh

Most people who seek attention and regard by announcing that they're writing a novel are actually so devoid of narrative talent that…

— Paul Fussell

I've gotten thrown out of thirty-seven straight games,' he said. 'Once or twice, I've had to go really crazy. I ran onto…

— John Green

I would say my being disheartened has more to do with American culture than anything else. We are becoming a very shallow…

— Philip Yancey

The back windows looked out over the fields, then the Atlantic, maybe a hundred yards away. Actually, I'm just making that bit…

— Marian Keyes

[Jules] slides into a seat beside me with her hot lunch tray, sighing. “Four hours, thirty-six minutes, and twelve seconds till we’re…

— Jodi Picoult

How are we doing, Simon?" she whispered into the small microphone in her collar. "Just about..." Simon started slowly. And then he…

— Ally Carter

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can…

— Ronald Reagan

The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve…

— Mitch Albom

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment…

— Edward Young

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

— Mark Twain

I was a thirteen-year-old boy for thirty years.

— Mickey Rooney

Thirty to 40 years ago, most financial decisions were fairly simple.

— Anonymous

“...to be Irish is to know the world will break your heart before you are thirty.”

— Virginia Henley

I still feel thirty, except when I try to run.

— Bob Newhart

“It took me thirty years to find myself, I had little wealth, But I had my health”

— Charmaine J Forde

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

— Mignon McLaughlin

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

— Grace Paley

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

— Aristotle