Famous Quotes & Sayings

Enid Bagnold

From birth to death we are alone ...

Jane Wagner

The idea is for students to learn about the human milestones from birth to the aging.

Emmy Rossum

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

Jon Bon Jovi

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Johnny Vegas

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough.

Johnny Vegas

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Johnny Ball

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Carson

We're more effective than birth control pills.

Johnny Carson

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

Ludwig van Beethoven

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

Pankaj Mishra

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

Mike Huckabee

Libido is a normal part of being human. Nothing scandalous about it. But without it, in either women or men, would there be a demand for birth control?

Suzi Quatro

I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.

Milton Bradley

It's been great to involve the American public in the celebration of this noteworthy birthday with the selection of the new ailment,

DeAngelo Hall

I told Chris Chambers you got a free gift, happy birthday. He owes me one now. It was no force out, he just didn't get his feet in.

This is not a happy birthday fund for the Commission. This money was held in trust for ratepayers, and should be returned to ratepayers.

This is the 250th birthday celebration for our namesake. The least we can do is celebrate.

This is the birthplace of it. Legitimately, this is where the thing was born.

Sophocles

You should not consider a man's age but his acts.

Sophocles

No lie ever reaches old age.

Sophocles

Not even old age knows how to love death.

Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Solomon Ortiz

I worked with the March of Dimes to enact legislation for a national birth defects prevention program to provide surveillance, research and preventive services aimed at reducing the rate of birth defects.

Stephanie Cutter

My brother got a .22 for his 12th birthday; I got a .22. He got a hunting knife; I got a hunting knife.

Soren Kierkegaard

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Woody Allen

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

William Wordsworth

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William J. Clinton

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

William James

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William Gilmore Simms

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.