Thirty Quotes
899 quotes by 735 authors
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My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was an evangelist, a religious teacher.…
— Chinua Achebe
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Thirty was a big deal for me. It was the age where I reevaluated everything - how I approached life and how I thought about…
— Amy Adams
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Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary…
— Niels Bohr
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The worst moment was when I was performing and I was about to sing, but I choked. I had a tickle in my throat and…
— Chris Brown
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Hollywood called just as I crested thirty. My novels did not and still do not interest them, but my writing ability did.
— Rita Mae Brown
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It's just a little ranch. Thirty-five acres. In Texas, if it's not a thousand acres, it's considered a ranchette.
— Betty Buckley
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When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my…
— Gisele Bundchen
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I started to write in about 1950; I was thirty-five at the time; there didn't seem to be any strong motivation. I simply was endeavoring…
— William S. Burroughs
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I spent thirty-three years and four months in active military service as a member of this country's most agile military force, the Marine Corps. I…
— Smedley Butler
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it…
— John Cage
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It is near thirty years since He made it sure; and since that time, though there has fallen out much sin, yet I was never…
— Donald Cargill
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
— Muhammad Ali
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All that I know I learned after I was thirty.
— Georges Clemenceau
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My father was and is a great journalist. Thirty years ago, I was studying broadcasting in college, and the problem was I wasn't nearly as…
— George Clooney
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The Mississippi River carries the mud of thirty states and two provinces 2,000 miles south to the delta and deposits 500 million tons of it…
— Charles Kuralt
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If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having…
— Jean Rostand
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Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.
— E. O. Wilson
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I am thirty-three - the age of the good Sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists.
— Camille Desmoulins
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Humanism or atheism is a wonderful philosophy of life as long as you are big, strong, and between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five. But…
— William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield
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War is the usual condition of Europe. A thirty years' supply of causes of war is always on hand.
— Peter Kropotkin
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