Famous Quotes & Sayings

Richard Dawkins

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Richard Bach

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Russell Baker

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

Russell Baker

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.

Russell Baker

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Russell Baker

The young cult of sociology, needing a language, invented one. There are many dead languages, but the sociologists' is the only language that was dead at birth.

Ron Ben-Israel

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings.

Rick Springfield

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

Paul McCartney

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Paul McCartney

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Peter Greenaway

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Paulina Porizkova

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

Paulina Porizkova

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

To grasp God in all things--this is the sign of your new birth.

Mary Pickford

I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.

Pierre Corneille

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Pierre Corneille

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

Rachael Ray

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

Preston Sturges

You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

Prince

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

Phyllis Smith

IMDB's not the most accurate. Even my birth place and my age are wrong there.

Phoebe Cary

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the living heart.

Pope John XXIII

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Victor Hugo

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Richard Bach

Thanks to you, I always am so happy. Now I want to give you all the happiness on your birthday.

Robert Foster Bennett

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

Robert Frost

What is this talked-of mystery of birth. But being mounted bareback on the earth?

Robert Frost

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Robert Bolt

Even at our birth, death does but stand aside a little. And every day he looks towards us and muses somewhat to himself whether that day or the next he will draw nigh.

Robert Benchley

A man of forty today has nothing to worry him but falling hair, inability to button the top button, failing vision, shortness of breath, a tendency of the collar to shut off all breathing, trembling of the kidneys to whatever tune the orchestra is playing, and a general sense of giddiness when the matter of rent is brought up. Forty is Life's Golden Age.

Rene Russo

There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.