Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Stoppard

In January 1962, when I was the author of one and a half unperformed plays, I attended a student production of 'The Birthday Party' at the Victoria Rooms in Bristol. Just before it began, I realised that Harold Pinter was sitting in front of me.

Tom Stoppard

From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

Victoria Beckham

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

Victor Cruz

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

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.

Rene Russo

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.

Thomas Hood

So mayst thou live, dear! many years, In all the bliss that life endears

Thomas Hood

I remember, I remember The roses, red and white, The violets, and the lily-cups, Those flowers made of light! The lilacs, where the robin built, And where my brother set The laburmum on his birthday,- The tree is living yet.

Rupert Everett

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Toby Keith

I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

Uwe Boll

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

Steven Morrissey

Age shouldn't affect you. It's just like the size of your shoes - they don't determine how you live your life! You're either marvellous or you're boring, regardless of your age.

Sue Townsend

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

Robert Browning

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Robert Browning

When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday

Richard Griffiths

Everyone over 50 should be issued every week with a wet fish in a plastic bag by the Post Office so that, whenever you see someone young and happy, you can hit them as hard as you can across the face.

Richard Griffiths

Happy birthday! Hope your 50s will be as awesome as your 40s.

Richard Armour

Of late I appear To have reached that stage When people who look old Who are only my age.

Red Skelton

You know how to tell when you're getting old? When your broad mind changes places with your narrow waist.

T. S. Eliot

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

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.

Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.

Rudyard Kipling

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.