#thirty

We were very rich culturally. One Sunday each month, we would do this thing called Chamber Pots at somebody's house. A classical music group would come over and we'd have dinner. There were thirty people - parents and kids - and we'd sit on the floor and listen to this beautiful music. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#beautiful music #called #chamber #classical #classical music

Grant me thirty years of equal division of inheritances and a free press, and I will provide you with a republic. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#equal #free #free press #grant #i

When I turn thirty, in thirty days or so, I might be feeling old, so I’ll probably call my grandma up, because as old as I’ll feel, she’ll be feeling older. Twelve years older.
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— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #grandma #nonsense #old #old-age

I drew the last image ever of Opus at midnight while Puccini was playing and I got rather stupid. Thirty years. A bit like saying goodbye to a child - which is ironic because I was never, never sentimental about him as many of his fans were. ↗

— Berkeley Breathed

#because #bit #child #drew #ever

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

— John Bright

#am #great #i #i am #liberal

One of the simplest ways to get an idea of one trillion dollars is to consider the amount in terms of the passage of time. One million seconds is equal to roughly eleven days and twelve hours, and one billion seconds is thirty-two years. One trillion seconds equals thirty-two thousand years. ↗

— Geoff Davis

#billion #consider #days #dollars #eleven

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#american women #bewildered #faces #maps #most

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#deal #did #folly #great #great deal

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. ↗

— Muhammad Ali

#fifty #his #life #man #same

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all. ↗

— John Cage

#boring #discovers #eight #eventually #four