Famous Quotes & Sayings

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

Katharine Hepburn

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

Leighton Meester

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Lawrence Tierney

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

John Kenneth Galbraith

By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

Joy Page

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Julianna Margulies

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Jules Renard

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Karl Jaspers

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Julie Walters

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Mariella Frostrup

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

Nicole Kidman

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

Marshall McLuhan

If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.

Marshall McLuhan

In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.

Marshall McLuhan

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.

Paul Ryan

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Paul Ryan

The condition of your birth doesn't determine the outcome of your life. This is America.

Rachel Maddow

My life is better with every year of living it.

Joe DiMaggio

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

Patti Smith

We tried not to age, but time had its rage.

Pat Robertson

If you read back in the Bible, the letter of the apostle Paul to the church of Thessalonia, he said that in the latter days before the end of the age that the Earth would be caught up in what he called the birth pangs of a new order.

P. J. O'Rourke

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals when their cheery effect is needed.

Mary Schmich

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

Mary Baker Eddy

Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year

Noam Chomsky

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Marvin Davis

As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

Navjot Singh Sidhu

Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

Muhammad Ali

Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.