Famous Quotes & Sayings

Washington's Birthday is a time to get people started. Hopefully most of the winter is gone.

Aaron Rodgers

Brett was phenomenal today, ... The day before his 36th birthday, he looked like a 22-year-old out there. Unbelievable.

Pankaj Mishra

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

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.

Ryan Lochte

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

John Ziegler

It was to be a birthday surprise for Letterman, who is a huge fan. But Tom said 'We've got commitments and we just can't do that.' I got to say, my chest went out a little bit at that.

Hilary Duff

I've never had a birthday this cool before,

They all three work around me like I'm nothing. You can find them involved in pretty much everything we do here from painting fingernails to decorating for birthday parties. They are a special group of ladies.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.