Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Most Powerful 30th Birthday quotations

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty.

The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14.

Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.

I started running around my 30th birthday.

I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special.

I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty;

Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty.

To my eye, women get sexier around 35. They know a thing or two, and knowledge is always alluring.

A man growing old becomes a child again.

A woman over 30 will never wake you in the middle of the night to ask, "What are you thinking?". She doesn't care what you think.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

I get all fired up about aging in America.

At my 30th birthday party, one of my best friends gave a toast and said I'd been waiting for that day since I was 13. Everyone laughed, but he was right! Life continues to get more fun, more surprising, more delightful.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday.

I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

I have angel wings and a halo on my wrist, which I got done on my 30th birthday in memory of my brother.

Food is one of life's really great pleasures.

My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older.

I guess I could say I'm an actor, which I am, but that sounds like I'm putting down being a movie star, which, let's face it, is what I've become to many people. For myself, I'm a guy who was very insecure from about age 14 until the day I hit my 30th birthday.

I think my craziest hair was when I first went red for my 30th birthday.

My idea was The Little Mermaid because I always wanted to be her and then I was going to be I love Lucy and every red-haired character that you can imagine. It was really cartoon red and now I'm in the more natural believable tones.

Age is how we determine how valuable you are.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.