Famous Quotes & Sayings

George Orwell

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

George Orwell

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

George Orwell

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

George Michael

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

G. Stanley Hall

Adolescence is a new birth, for the higher and more completely human traits are now born.

Franklin P. Adams

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

Franklin P. Adams

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

Franklin P. Adams

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Franklin P. Adams

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

Jim Carrey

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Time and tide wait for no man.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

Chris Hardwick

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Christine Lahti

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christina Rossetti

And may you happy live, And long us bless.

Christina Rossetti

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

George W. Bush

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

George Carlin

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

Gene Tierney

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gail Sheehy

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Frederick Leboyer

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Evel Knievel

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

Eugene O'Neill

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Euripides

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Francis Ford Coppola

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Francis Bacon

Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry.

Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Groucho Marx

Life is a whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

Goran Ivanisevic

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

Golda Meir

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

Homaro Cantu

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

Iain Duncan Smith

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

Iain Duncan Smith

Work is transformative. It gives you a greater chance of a greater income. You can affect your life while you're of working age, so you have scope and opportunity. Pensioners do not.