Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Walken

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Annette Funicello

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Anna Magnani

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

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.

Amy Weber

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

Aeschylus

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

The day turned out to be October 27, Sylvia's birthday. I had a book coming out about John McCain and I really wasn't thinking of Sylvia then.

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.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dora Russell

Marie Stopes had established the first birth control clinic in Britain; the whole question of informing women, especially those who were poor, about methods of contraception, began to be discussed.

Doris Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Colleen McCullough

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Danica McKellar

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

Dag Hammarskjold

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Connie Britton

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple ain' - it just can't be done!

Colin Firth

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

Cyril Connolly

No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

Danielle Steel

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

David Henrie

When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

Dan Brown

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.