Thirty Quotes

Thirty years ago, in 1976, the notion of organized activity to combat discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was an extremely controversial one.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

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

The slogan was 'Don't trust anyone over thirty'. Sixty years later the slogan became, 'Don't trust anyone over ninety'.

Thirty is not an age for a woman anymore.

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

My greatest enemy is reality. I have fought it successfully for thirty years.

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 The opposite of a trivial truth is false; the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.

The game has kept faith with the public, maintaining its old admission price for nearly thirty years while other forms of entertainment have doubled and tripled in price. And it will probably never change.

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

I am for peace, retrenchment and reform, the watchword of the great Liberal Party thirty years ago.

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

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

The dominant economic approach of the last thirty years is now on its last legs. Letting the market rip and an indifference to inequality are now seen as important causes of the greatest economic crash since the 1930s.

The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

We cannot sacrifice innocent human life now for vague and exaggerated promises of medical treatments thirty of forty years from now. There are ways to pursue this technology and respect life at the same time.

This country has a complex about age. It's unbelievable. If you're over thirty, you've had it in this country.

In less than eighteen months, it prepared a first draft which it submitted to the General Assembly and which, at the end of one hundred sessions of elevated, often impassioned discussion, was adopted in the form of thirty articles on December 10, 1948.

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

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

Yeah I do and I don't mind, in fact that is one of the real encouraging things about this whole career of mine is that there are tunes I wrote almost thirty years ago that I will still play in front of an audience and I still like the old tunes.

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

There were so many individual styles thirty or forty years ago.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

They were heading out to the middle of the bay - the Gulf - that's another thing that became kind of standard practice, we didn't hurry the destroyers around the beach any more, when it got dark, we'd take 'em out thirty or forty miles out in the middle of the Tonkin Gulf.

When a woman is twenty, a child deforms her; when she is thirty, he preserves her; and when forty, he makes her young again.

Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.