Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rod Taylor

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Rod Stewart

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Rod Stewart

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Sarah Sutton

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

Samuel Ullman

Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from the infinite, so long are you young.

Samuel Ullman

You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Samuel Johnson

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Samuel Johnson

The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.

Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Walter Lord

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Voltaire

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

William Feather

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

William Butler Yeats

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

Walter Dean Myers

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Yigal Azrouel

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

Willie Geist

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it.

Vincent Gallo

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Will Rogers

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

William Hazlitt

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

William Dean Howells

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

Vivienne Westwood

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don't notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Vivienne Westwood

The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

Walter Cronkite

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Virginia Woolf

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

Virginia Woolf

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Virginia Woolf

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

William Blake

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt.