Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Woody Allen

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

William Wordsworth

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

William J. Clinton

I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

William James

It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.

William Gilmore Simms

The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Wilson Mizner

The first hundred years are the hardest.

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.

W. Somerset Maugham

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

Yoko Ono

When I turned 60, it didn't bother me at all.

William Osler

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

Zoe Saldana

I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.