30 Years Of Life Quotes

#1. One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Charles Dudley Warner

#2. I don't want to restrict the life of a play to a particular production. The original actors might leave after the first six months, and I want the play to last 30 or 40 years. You write for the character, not the actor on the stage.

Neil Simon

#3. I was 30 when 9/11 happened and I had lived exactly 15 years of life in America, so I was half American. I was a full-fledged New Yorker.

Mohsin Hamid

#4. It may be for 20 or 30 years no one has yet been able to decide the length of the life of the black bass.

Jay Cooke

#5. I knew my successor would be better than me for the next stage of the company's life. And it was a relief - I'd been doing it for 30 years. My only worry was what the hell I was going to do with my time.

Peter Hargreaves

#6. I see myself as life-sized, certainly not a supersized personality, and apparently after 30 years of television, that's what the audience thinks of me as well. I know this because for the first time in my career, I've just seen market research, and the thing I am known for is being authentic.

Jane Pauley

#7. The Faustian trade of the 20th century was, we got 30 years of additional life, but in return we got heart disease, cancer, stroke, Alzheimer's and sensory impairments. The question is: What Faustian trade are we making now, as we go after heart disease, cancer, stroke and Alzheimer's?

S. Jay Olshansky

#8. We are quantity-obsessed: Instead of living for 30 pleasant years (and then calling it a life), most people would rather live for 80 unpleasant years.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

#9. By requiring all 30 million Americans age 18 to 25 to perform two years of national service, in the military or civilian life, we will be asking for a shared sacrifice from all American citizens.

Charles B. Rangel

#10. For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!

David Lee Roth

#11. As from the 1970's onward, digital code started to drive the global economy, now life code is beginning to be the fundamental driver of the global economy over the next 10, 20, 30 years.

Juan Enriquez

#12. There are times in my 30 years in the theater that I have come perilously close to losing faith in the one form of action I have in this life.

Athol Fugard

#13. If you're 30 years old, you have your whole life ahead of you.

Sherry Argov

#14. Well, you know, it's been in the back of my mind. I just cannot get it out of it. I'm miserable chasing money. I'm 30 years old going through a mid-life crisis! I just couldn't shut (it) off.

Drew Waters

#15. If I'm going to make music and put my heart and soul into this and dedicate my whole life to it, I want to be making something that 15, 20, 30 years from now, somebody is listening to and that is a staple of the time it came out.

Blake Judd

#16. People repeat in adult life emotions they experience in childhood. Many of the people whom I spent the last 30 or 40 years treating at so much per minute wouldn't have needed any treatment at all if they had had the right care as children.

Karl A. Menninger

#17. I spent 30 years of my life not being wanted at all for films.

Michael Caine

#18. If you spend the first 30 years of your life only trying to look good, you're not going to know yourself very well. If you got it, flaunt it.

Ariel Pink

#19. Your life at this exact moment is a direct result of choices you made once upon a time. Thirty minutes or 30 year ago.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#20. After 30 years in the theater, I'm used to having a great amount of control over what I do. But with '24', you place your character's life in the writers' hands, and you have no idea what's going to happen until you're sent the next pages.

Cherry Jones

#21. My dad was an absentee dad, so it was always important to me that I was part of my daughter's life, and she deserved two parents, which is part of the rationale behind us staying married for 30 years.

Samuel L. Jackson

#22. I know that the greatest of actresses has about 20 good years of acting in her and that she will go on living for 30 or 40 years as a human being. So, the conclusion I have come to is that I can't make acting my whole life.

Jean Seberg

#23. As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.

Donald Evans

#24. To start your working life after you've graduated from school and university, it takes you a long time to get started in the real world. Today, kids are not out into the workforce until 27 or 30 years of age. By the time I was 30, I had six kids and 60 trucks.

Lindsay Fox

#25. One of the beauties of art is that it reflects an artist's entire life. What I've learned over the past 30 years is really beginning to inform what I make. I hope that process continues until I die.

Andy Goldsworthy

#26. I have been 'diving within' through the Transcendental Meditation technique for over 30 years. It has changed my life, my world. I am not alone. Millions of other people of all ages, religions, and walks of life practice the technique and enjoy incredible benefits.

David Lynch

#27. I did not make this film about Frank Abagnale because of what he did . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.

Steven Spielberg

#28. More than 30 years ago, when I had embarked upon the fight against child labour, it was not even considered an issue worth any discussion. It was accepted as a way of life in India, much like it was in other countries. Today, no country or business or society can throw this issue away.

Kailash Satyarthi

#29. I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Sue Townsend

#30. How could 30 years be the blink-of-the-eye it felt? It was the difference between black-and-white footage of the Second World War and David Bowie on 'Top of the Pops' singing 'Life on Mars.'

Ali Smith

#31. The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.

Muhammad Ali

#32. One man has enthusiasm for 30 minutes, another for 30 days, but it is the man who has it for 30 years who makes a success of his life.

Edward Burgess Butler

#33. In the first 30 years of your life, you make your habits. For the last 30 years of your life, your habits make you.

Walter Isaacson