Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Hardwick

Every year on my birthday, I start a new playlist titled after my current age so I can keep track of my favorite songs of the year as a sort of musical diary because I am a teenage girl.

Christine Lahti

I don't want to fight aging; I want to take good care of myself, but plastic surgery and all that? I'm not interested.

Christina Rossetti

And may you happy live, And long us bless.

Christina Rossetti

Because the birthday of my life Is come, my love is come to me.

George W. Bush

I think we ought to raise the age at which juveniles can have a gun.

George Carlin

I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius.

Gene Tierney

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

Gail Sheehy

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

Frederick Leboyer

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Evel Knievel

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

Eugene O'Neill

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Euripides

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Francis Ford Coppola

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Thanks to Anton, on Dec. 31, 1892 (his 33rd birthday), the streetlights of Washington were lit with generated power . . . He also brought telephone service to Washington.

Herbie Hancock

So my parents, particularly my mother, she noticed that I seemed to be interested, so on my seventh birthday my parents got me a piano.

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

Hansie Cronje

I missed him the most this birthday but maybe I'm just tired,

Erma Bombeck

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Florence Welch

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

Flip Wilson

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fiona Apple

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Henry Louis Gates

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Henry Miller

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Cate Blanchett

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Cate Blanchett

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Cate Blanchett

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

E. B. White

Swedish meatballs were the favorite, and the 'Happy Birthday, Poppy' cake with cream cheese frosting.

Sure, birthdays have been around forever. But birthday parties are a growth business.

David took the shift so his wife's brother could celebrate his birthday.

Shawn Levy

Even when I was a kid, I had a good thing with kids. To this day, if I go to a birthday party with one of my kids, I swear to you, I am so much happier hanging out with my kids and their friends than talking to the grown-ups.

It's a great piece. It's about 200 years old. We're trying to give it a 200-year birthday party.