Famous Quotes & Sayings

Billy Joel

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

Betty White

I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.

Beyonce Knowles

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

Earl Warren

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

David Ulevitch

My mother still sends a cake to the office for my birthday.

David Horowitz

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

Audrey Hepburn

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

Audrey Hepburn

And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!

Arnold Bennett

A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.

Bobby McFerrin

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

Benjamin Franklin

At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.

Barry White

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.

Baltasar Gracian

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Aung San Suu Kyi

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Aung San Suu Kyi

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Daniel Handler

I like to give people novels I think they would like, on no particular occasion - just when we're in a bookstore together. I like to receive reference books on my birthday.

Craig Ferguson

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

Elizabeth Taylor

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

Elizabeth Taylor

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

Ashleigh Brilliant

The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

Ben Stein

It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.

Ashley Jensen

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the thing to do on the weekends, be together.

Bruce Springsteen

I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.

Brian Jones

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.

Brad Garrett

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Jane Fonda

It's hard for women at my age in Hollywood, but I'm not discouraged.

Jane Fonda

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

Jane Fonda

We can no longer waste time and money. Every day, more than 2,000 girls in America, age 15-19, give birth - in the wealthiest, most educated nation in the world! Neither you nor I should accept this statistic.

Jane Fonda

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.