Girl Turning 30 Quotes & Sayings

Keeping with our family tradition of sending their children abroad for a couple of years, and aware of my interest in chemistry, I was sent to a boarding school in Switzerland when I was 11 years old, on the assumption that German was an important language for a prospective chemist to learn. — Mario J. Molina

Small back yard until the sun went down and the early mosquitoes came out to play. I was — Karina Halle

Your true home is in the here and the now. — Thich Nhat Hanh

I have been sometimes way too attracted by my own villains because in a way they seem to hold the secret to the heart of the narrative. — Peter Straub

A tree you pass by every day is just a tree. If you are to closely examine what a tree has and the life a tree has, even the smallest thing can withstand a curiosity, and you can examine whole worlds. — William Shatner

There is nothing we cannot live down, rise above, and overcome. — Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The Smiths fallout continues in Denver, where someone has held an entire radio station at gunpoint until DJs make the promise to play Smiths music. Unwittingly, this gunman is providing the very first active radio promotion on behalf of the Smiths, and evidently a loaded gun is what it takes to get a Smiths song on the airwaves. — Morrissey

One uncontrolled character flaw can ruin your greatest accomplishment. — Wayde Goodall

Not till we are completely lost or turned around ... do we begin to find ourselves. — Henry David Thoreau

He loves her so much that he can't even see her. — Jennifer Echols

In order to survive, an animal must be born into a favoring or at least tolerant environment. Similarly, in order to achieve preservation and recognition, a specimen of fossil man must be discovered in intelligence, attested by scientific knowledge, and interpreted by evolutionary experience. These rigorous prerequisites have undoubtedly caused many still-births in human palaeontology and are partly responsible for the high infant mortality of discoveries of geologically ancient man. — Earnest Hooton

I think children love reading, and they will make time for it if we put the right books into their hands. And I hope I get the chance to keep being one of the people that writes them. — Rick Riordan

I don't want your future
I don't need your past
One bright moment
Is all I ask — Florence Welch

A strong sense of duty is no bad part of a woman's portion — Jane Austen

Obviously she's the kind of woman who gives people the benefit of the doubt. I prefer to assume bad stuff first; correct it later. — Heather Day Gilbert