Thirty Years Quotes

• At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Birthday, Time, Growing Up

  'Poor Richard's Almanac' (1741) June

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• n Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love - they had 500 years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.

  Orson Welles

  Love, Funny, Life

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Centuries hence, when current social and political problems may seem as remote as the problems of the Thirty Years' War are to us, our age may be remembered chiefly for one fact: It was the time when the inhabitants of the earth first made contact with the vast cosmos in which their small planet is embedded.

  Carl Sagan

  War, Years, Space

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• Rhyme as an echo not a closing off of sound. Love it. I don't know where the rhymes came from. Or the puns like "no/know" and so on. Just a way my mind start moving toward what seemed urgent to it. I'd like to claim complete rational intent for it all, but it wasn't that way. if you asked me about rhyme thirty years ago, I'd have said: not me, never. And now I done it.

  Gregory Orr

  Moving, Years, Echoes

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I needed to justify my existence, and I had made an absolute of literature. It took me thirty years to get rid of this state of mind.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Years, Mind, Literature

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• The world concerns me only in so far as I feel a certain indebtedness and duty toward it because I have walked this earth for thirty years, and, out of gratitude, want to leave some souvenir in the shape of drawings or pictures — not made to please a certain taste in art, but to express a sincere human feeling.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Gratitude, Years, Earth

  "Vincent Van Gogh".

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• Popular culture, on average, has been growing more cognitively challenging over the past thirty years, not less. Despite everything you hear about declining standards and dumbing-down, you have to do more intellectual work to make sense of today's television or games - much less the internet - than you did a few decades ago.

  Steven Johnson

  Past, Average, Years

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• I think that if I had grown up and had been in show business and the movies twenty five, thirty years earlier, I think I would have made a lot more musical movies.

  Christopher Walken

  Business, Thinking, Years

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• Yes, Boss?' Dorcas, the last twenty or thirty years I've been a worthless, no-good parasite.' She yawned again. 'Everybody knows that.' Nevermind the flattery. There comes a time in every man's life when he has to stop being sensible--a time to stand up and be counted--strike a blow for liberty--smite the wicked.' Ummm...' So quit yawning, the time has come.' She glanced down. 'Maybe I had better get dressed.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Blow, Years

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.89, Penguin

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• While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Hero, Home, Moon

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Aug 05, 2011

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• I prefer sinners and madmen, who can learn, who can change, who can teach-or people like myself, if I may say so, who are not afraid to eat a lobster alone as they take on their shoulders the monumental weight of thirty years

  James A. Baldwin

  Years, People, Lobster

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

  Nick Hornby

  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• I took a straight picture that made me look like a thirty-year-old Italian who'd kill anybody who said something against his mother.

  Jack Kerouac

  Mother, Italian, Years

  Jack Kerouac (1995). “The Portable Jack Kerouac”, Viking Adult

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• It's physically very, very, very trying to be onstage as a performer, not unlike an athlete, for thirty years.

  Nikki Sixx

  Athlete, Years, Trying

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• A comedy can actually get funnier and funnier. Even though you know the joke, you enjoy it so much, it's the facial expression, you laugh. The laugh doesn't wear off. It could be with you for thirty years.

  Eli Roth

  Expression, Years, Laughing

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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 out of an assurance of mine interest, nor long out of sight of His presence.

  Donald Cargill

  Sight, Years, Long

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• The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cute, Time, Years

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• What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Years, Afternoon, Next

  The Great Gatsby ch. 7 (1925)

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• I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Years, Differences, Making A Difference

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• The universe is a symphony of strings, and the mind of God that Einstein eloquently wrote about for thirty years would be cosmic music resonating through eleven-dimensional hyper space.

  Michio Kaku

  Symphony, Space, Years

  Interview with Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• My biggest worry is I'm running out of time and energy. Thirty years ago I thought 10 years was a really long time.

  Dean Kamen

  Running, Years, Worry

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• The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

  David Ogilvy

  Work, Years, Careers

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• Doctors tell me I have the body of a thirty year old. I know I have the brain of a fifteen year old. If you've got both, you can play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Doctors

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• You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

  Doris Lessing

  Wise, Years, Etc

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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