Famous Quotes & Sayings

I worked every day - Christmas Eve, birthdays - trying to become a great basketball player. Everywhere I went, I had a basketball.

Kevin Youkilis

I remember two years ago a bunch of us went out on the boat and it was my birthday. We had a great time out there. That's the little things you miss. Johnny was a great person. He was the first guy to step in front of the media when things weren't right, when things were right.

Karl Popper

Our civilization...has not yet fully recovered from the shock of its birth - the transition from the tribal or 'closed society', with its submission to magical forces, to the 'open society' which sets free the critical powers of man.

Lindsay Wagner

My sister at the time was 13 and so I did the show as a birthday present. The start date of the show was her birthday. Talk about karma.

My mom and dad have been to the birth of my children as well as all my sisters' (children),

Anne Lamott

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Annie Lennox

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

Annie Lennox

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Dillard

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Clifton Fadiman

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Clint Eastwood

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

Daniel Day-Lewis

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

Walter Cronkite

Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.

Lily James

I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times.

Alexander McQueen

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Alexander Pope

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Albert Schweitzer

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Doug Larson

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

Dorothy Thompson

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Colin Powell

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Daniel Craig

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

E. B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Douglas Horton

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Douglas Coupland

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Douglas Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

David Bailey

I left school on my 15th birthday.