Thirty Quotes - Page 16

• Youth is the period of harsh judgments, and a man seldom learns until he reaches thirty that human nature is made up not of simples, but of compounds.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Men, Youth, Human Nature

  Ellen Glasgow (2016). “The Miller of Old Church”, p.277, The Floating Press

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• Not one woman over seventeen has any faith in her skin tone, and no woman over thirty can ever regard her upper arms with equanimity.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Skin Tone, Skins, Body

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.26, Simon and Schuster

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• To every class we have a school assign'd,
  Rules for all ranks, and food for every mind:
  Yet one there is, that small regard to rule
  Or study pays, and still is deem'd a school;
  That, where a deaf, poor, patient widow sits,
  And awes some thirty infants as she knits;
  Infants of humble, busy wives, who pay
  Some trifling price for freedom through the day.
  At this good matron's hut the children meet,
  Who thus becomes the mother of the street.

  George Crabbe

  Mother, Children, Humble

  George Crabbe (1858). “The Poetical Works of George Crabbe: With a Life of the Author”, p.239

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• I do think we should be provided with a new body about the age of thirty or so when we have learnt to attend to it with consideration.

  Freya Stark

  Thinking, Age, Body

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• I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.

  Edna Ferber

  Children, Book, Dark

  Edna Ferber (1963). “A Kind of Magic”

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• Everything is moderation, really. I don't really deprive myself of anything. But I try to balance it with healthy food choices. I am not real fond of exercise, so I try to get away with as little as possible which is about thirty minutes three times a week and I do a little weight training and cardio.

  Martina McBride

  Real, Exercise, Choices

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• I think I would just get bored to be honest. Ask any human being if they want to stay in exactly the same job for thirty years they say "No!" The ultimate cliché, 'Variety is the spice of life', is sadly true.

  Doc Brown

  Jobs, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.gigglebeats.co.uk

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• my mother always found me out. Always. She's been dead for thirty-five years, but I have this feeling that even now she's watching.

  Natalie Babbitt

  Mother, Years, Feelings

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• Thirty years ago, my sister, Gale (so named because a gale hit Boston Harbor the night she was born), some friends and I stole a boat in the middle of the night and sailed it out of the Santa Barbara harbor. Suddenly we were becalmed and the current began pushing us toward the breakwall. With no running lights and no power, we were dead in the water. Out of that darkness a steel hull appeared: it was the local Coast Guard cutter. My father, stern-faced and displeased, stood in the bow.

  Gretel Ehrlich

  Running, Father, Night

  Gretel Ehrlich (1995). “A Match to the Heart: One Woman's Story of Being Struck By Lightning”, p.29, Penguin

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• At the age of thirty-five, I have just begun to become the kind of person who could understand the kind of book I would want to write.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Book, Writing, Age

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• Bachelors begin at thirty-six. Up till this age they are regarded as single men.

  Jilly Cooper

  Men, Age, Six

  Jilly Cooper (2011). “Men And Supermen”, p.22, Random House

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• Every new truth has its birth-place in a manger, lives thirty years, is crucified, and then deified.

  Lucy Stone

  Truth, Years, Birth Place

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• Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.

  Delia Ephron

  Taken, Worst, Preparing

  Delia Ephron (1988). “Funny sauce”, Signet

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• At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.

  Myrtle Reed

  Men, Twenties, Forty

  Myrtle Reed (2012). “The Spinster Book”, p.38, tredition

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• [When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.

  Bess Truman

  Daughter, Years, President

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• No one color can describe the various and varied complexions in our group. They range from the deep black to the fairest white with all the colors of the rainbow thrown in for good measure. When twenty or thirty of us meet, it is as hard to find three or four with the same complexion as it would be catch greased lightning in a bottle.

  Mary Church Terrell

  Color, White, Rainbow

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• Try saying this silently to everyone and everything you see for thirty days and see what happens to your own soul: I wish you happiness now and whatever will bring happiness to you in the future.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Soul, Wish, Trying

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• By the age of nine I had a thorough knowledge of contemporary Polish literature as well as of foreign literature in Polish translation, and I began to write poems in honour of a lady of thirty years. Naturally, she knew nothing about them.

  Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont

  Writing, Thorough Knowledge, Years

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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

  Vivian Gornick

  Father, Tired, Years

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• So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?

  Sue Margolis

  Marriage, Mother, Thinking

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

  Cynthia Asquith

  People, Born, Knows

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• Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.

  Abby Sunderland

  Wall, Eye, Feet

  Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I took desperate measures to lose weight and did terrible things to myself. I went from diet pills to thirty laxatives a day to throwing up.

  Richard Simmons

  Desperate Measures, Pills, Weight

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Looking back, I think I tried to be too eclectic. Sometimes I'd sing thirty songs, and fifteen of them were not in English.

  Pete Seeger

  Song, Thinking, Fifteen

  Source: www.wholeearth.com

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• Time is weird in your twenties. It's intense, and you feel like it's running out. But you'll get to thirty and see you are still here on the planet.

  Parker Posey

  Running, Twenties, Intense

  Source: www.esquire.com

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