[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.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
As you get to thirty, the main thing is to not be sensible.
As a teacher with over thirty years of experience, I've found that students are hungry for material that goes beyond simply learning tune after tune. In fact, my students suggested a good portion of the material presented here. This lesson should be an indispensable aid to the aspiring bluegrass banjoist.
Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five, and the worst actually began to happen.
I am going to be pretty kick a$$ by the time I'm thirty, and I can't wait!!
At thirty most men have prejudices rather than opinions-that is to say, rather than judgments-and few men have lived to be sixty without materially modifying the opinions they held at thirty.
It has taken me thirty three years and a bang on the head to get my values right.
I would not be young again, if you offered me the world. But then I'm prejudiced. ' 'You talk,' I said, 'as if you were ninety-nine. ' 'For a woman I very nearly am,' she said. 'I'm thirty five.
I think what frustrated me more than anything else in my formative years was that I just had to work. I had to have a job. Like twenty to thirty hours a week, a lot of times in high school and college. And that was hard.
There is no devious and dangerous life. I've lived a charmed life, especially in the last thirty years since I've started publishing. I've won the lottery. And I keep winning it every year and I am so fortunate to do something I thoroughly enjoy and still enjoy after a bunch of books.
Our prison population quintupled in a thirty year period of time. Not doubled or tripled - quintupled. We went from a prison and jail population of about 300,000 to now more than 2 million.
At 2 per cent growth a year, an economy doubles in size in just thirty years.
I was told to hand over my disposable lighter, to prevent, I suppose, any threat of "Do what I say or I'll light this Marlboro and you'll all die - in thirty years due to inhalation of secondhand smoke. "
It is within the last quarter century or thirty years. And a lot of that law has turned out to be very, very protective of the press and the public's right to know.
Thirty, 40 years ago, more than that now, even, the cook was certainly at the bottom of the social scale. And any mother would've wanted their child to marry a doctor, a lawyer, an architect, not a cook. Now, we are genius, it's different.
The CIA is absolutely out of control. The CIA has been on a killing spree. . . The CIA has become a death squad and to see these films [ like Zero Dark Thirty] get so much acclaim at the time when the CIA is in its rogue killing phase is very disturbing.
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.
Thirty years of spiritual practice has given me the realization that emotions are based on our perceptions, whether or not they are based on reality.
When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.