Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gore Vidal

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

George Burns

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

George Burns

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

George Bernard Shaw

The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.

Erica Jong

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

Eric Cantor

I do not suspect that Jefferson or Madison ever envisioned Congress honoring the 2,560th anniversary of the birth of Confucius or supporting the designation of National Pi Day.

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

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Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Thanks to Anton, on Dec. 31, 1892 (his 33rd birthday), the streetlights of Washington were lit with generated power . . . He also brought telephone service to Washington.

Herbie Hancock

So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh birthday my parents got me a piano.

I've heard stories about moms leaving their kids at birth when this happened. I could never understand that. Now I'm just in love with her and I would die for her.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

Hansie Cronje

I missed him the most this birthday but maybe I'm just tired,

Erma Bombeck

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Florence Welch

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

Flip Wilson

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fiona Apple

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?