Quotes About Turning 30

#1. Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

John Cusack

#2. We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

Bruce Cameron

#3. When I first got pregnant, I freaked out. Then I had to remind myself: I'm turning 30.

Melissa Joan Hart

#4. If you expand the boundaries of mental illness, which is clealry what has happened in this country during the past twenty-five years, and you treat the people so diagnosed with psychiatric medications, do you run the risk of turning an anger-ridden teenager into a lifelong mental patient? (p. 30)

Robert Whitaker

#5. Share weight and woe, for misfortune falls with double force on him that stands alone.

Baltasar Gracian

#6. It's really something for people who are approaching 30 to take a look at what that means to them. I think turning 30 is a chance to re-identify with yourself.

Neil Patrick Harris

#7. But against all the odds, against even the laws of physics and logic, we did.

C.D. Reiss

#8. She was like a bride-to-be who begins to feel her sickening qualms as the day approaches, and dares not speak her mind because so many preparations have been made on her behalf the happiness and convenience of so many good people would be put at risk.

Ian McEwan

#9. The beginning of 2015 marked a turning point for China's real estate market; land sales in both volume and proceeds plunged by 30 percent compared to the prior year.

Anonymous

#10. At one point, my house was a school for autistic children. I opened up my doors to about 30 kids and their families at the time. I was turning into Mary Poppins because I had to do something for these kids who have nowhere to go. So my house was the school for two years.

Jenny McCarthy

#11. Turning 30 was when my parents both got cancer and were fighting it and beat it, but their mortality started to get to me. Everything wasn't as hunky-dory like it was.

Darren Aronofsky

#12. We are provincials no longer. The tragic events of the 30 months of vital turmoil through which we have just passed have made us citizens of the world. There can be no turning back.

Woodrow Wilson

#13. Nothing on 'Relapse' and very little on 'Recovery' was produced by me.

Eminem

#14. Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.

Thomas Jefferson

#15. The artist need not know very much; best of all let him work instinctively and paint as naturally as he breathes or walks.

Emil Nolde

#16. FDR created today's 30 percent coalition. Obama wants to finish the job by turning it into a permanent ruling majority. There's nothing new about the Obama Narrative. It is the FDR Narrative on steroids. It is intended to lead to greater statism and political gain.

Arthur C. Brooks

#17. More dreams are realised and extinguished in Bombay than any other place in India.

Gregory David Roberts

#18. But he was a connoisseur of the if-only, and so they did travel. They travelled in the past-conditional.

Julian Barnes

#19. Maybe it has something to do with turning 30. I don't feel as shy or nervous or self-conscious. I have more confidence that I can handle what life brings me. I don't feel scared to have an idea and express it.

Michelle Williams

#20. Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

John Desmond Bernal

#21. Everything in L.A. is - it's just an easy place to live in. The houses are nice, the backyards are nice, you got the ocean right there and the mountains behind you; there's an idealised easiness to the way you live and the whole environment.

Spike Jonze

#22. Extol Jewish virtue, modern Zionism and the Israeli Defense Forces.

Geraldo Rivera

#23. I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin.

Thandie Newton

#24. One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

Cobie Smulders

#25. I'm turning 30 years old this year ... it's better than 20, I'll tell you that. The lessons I've learned.

Christina Aguilera