Milestone Age Quotes

'Dr. Quinn' came along when I turned 40, so my career actually peaked then.

I was excited to turn 60.

Turning 30, life has definitely changed - it's changed for the better.

For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'

At any rate, that’s how I started running. Thirty three—that’s how old I was then. Still young enough, though no longer a young man. The age that Jesus Christ died. The age that Scott Fitzgerald started to go downhill. That age may be a kind of crossroads in life. That was the age when I began my life as a runner, and it was my belated, but real, starting point as a novelist.

When you are 20, 40 looks really old. When I was nearing 30, that seemed like a major milestone.

I turned 65 and thought, 'Oh my God, I'm a senior. How did this happen?'

You get a zero at the end of your age number, and you get some extra attention. That's what I found out.

Let me tell you, hitting 40 is not fun.

Only if I reach 100 years old will I write a very complete autobiography. Not before.

It's pretty cool being 40 and having your blow-up moment.

What better time to write a memoir than the big 3-0?

I just turned 30 so I got really introspective as you do, questioning my life. And when I stopped and sort of looked back at the past decade, I realized I had done more work than I thought I had done.

At this time when I turn 50, because so there's many of my friends and family who didn't get to see 50-years-old, and so, I'm celebrating for them too.

I think turning 30 - and same with turning 21, 25, or turning 18 - those are moments in life where something new is expected of you, or you expect something new from yourself.

Around the time I turned 30, I wanted to publish a novel.

Bruce Sutter has been around for a while and he's pretty old. He's thirty-five years old, that will give you some idea of how old he is.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

I feel like since I was 27, I was calling myself 30. And then, when it happened, it was like, 'I'm finally here now. This is it.

I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's going to be good. Get through those twenties!'

I was 22 my rookie year.

Fifty is a pretty cool number.

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

Twenty-two is just such a random age. It's a little blah.