InspiringQuotes

Birthday Quotes:

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

topic: Birthday, School, Exercise, Complicated Life, School Days

quote in the end it s not the years in your life that count it s the life in your years abraham lincoln Quotes

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?

topic: Birthday, Issues, People

Quotation John Lennon Count your age by friends not years Count your life Quotes

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

- Agatha Christie

source: Attributed in Bennett Cerf, The Life of the Party (1956)

topic: Love, Funny, Birthday, Husband To Be, Marriage Humor

Quotation Mother Teresa Be happy in the moment that s enough Each moment Quotes

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.

topic: Birthday, Cake, Childhood, Birthday Cake, Tempting

Quotation Satchel Paige How old would you be if you didn t know Quotes

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

topic: Birthday, Tin, Cold

Quotation George Burns You can t help getting older but you don t Quotes

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

- Alanis Morissette

topic: Birthday, Sarcasm, Thinking, Passive Aggressive, Save The Planet

Quotation Emily Dickinson We turn not older with years but newer every day Quotes

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

topic: Birthday, Men, Age

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Birthday, Children, Mean, Inspirational Age, Turning 40

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

- Aldous Huxley

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, History, Enigmatic

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

- Alexander McQueen

topic: Birthday, Fashion, Book

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Birthday, Grateful, Mind, Milestone Birthday, 40th Birthday

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

- Alexander Pope

topic: Birthday, Graduation, Education

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

- Alphonse Karr

topic: Change, Birthday, Things Change, Deep Space, Matter Of Time

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: Birthday, Past, Thinking

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: Birthday, Anxiety, Age, Amanda

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

- Amanda Seyfried

topic: Birthday, My Birthday, Suits

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

topic: Birthday, Twins, Week

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

- Andre Maurois

topic: Birthday, Time, Hunting, Growing Old, 30th Birthday

Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

- Andy Borowitz

topic: Birthday, People, Thanks, Funny Birthday

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

topic: Birthday, Memories, Years, Collective Memory, Woodstock

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

topic: Birthday, Dumb, Junk, Junk Food

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

- Ann Brashares

source: Twitter post from Jan 26, 2010

topic: Birthday, Depression, Time, Stress And Worry, Social Anxiety

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

source: "Philip French's screen legends" by Philip French, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

topic: Birthday, Wrinkles, Long, Retouching, Old Birthday

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

- Annette Funicello

topic: Birthday, Stars, Hollywood

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

topic: Birthday, Issues, Age, Vapid

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

topic: Birthday, Mean, Uganda, Life Expectancy, Expectancy

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.

topic: Birthday, People, Looks, Humorous Birthday, Fat People

Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.

source: Aphra Behn (1696). “The Younger Brother: Or, the Amorous Jilt. A Comedy ... Written by the Late Ingenious Mrs. A. Behn. With Some Account of Her Life. [Edited, with Alterations and a Memoir, by Charles Gildon.]”, p.30

topic: Love, Birthday, Positive, Marriage Anniversary, Happy Anniversary

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

- Arnold Bennett

topic: Birthday, Men, Years, 21st Birthday, 20th Birthday

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

topic: Birthday, Firefighter, Way, Homeland Security

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Congratulations, Age, Humorous Birthday, Inspirational Age

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Philosophical, Years, Milestone Birthday, 20th Birthday

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

- Arthur Schopenhauer

topic: Birthday, Years, Giving, Milestone Birthday

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

- Ashleigh Brilliant

topic: Birthday, Worry

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

- Ashley Jensen

topic: Birthday, Children, Wigs

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

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Birthday, Marriage, Uplifting, Inspirational Age, Ageing

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

- Audrey Hepburn

topic: Birthday, Success, Disappointment, Funny Birthday

After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

- Barbara Cartland

source: Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

topic: Birthday, Women, Sunset, Losing Her

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

- Baron de Montesquieu

topic: Birthday, People, Age, Being Spoiled

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.

topic: Birthday, Senior, School, Senior Year

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

topic: Birthday, Return, Praying

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.

topic: Birthday, Smart, Men, Smart Man

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

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Birthday, Time, Growing Up, Milestone Birthday, 30th Birthday

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

topic: Birthday, Age, Middle, Middle Ages, Classmates

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Birthday, Years, Age, Witty Birthday, Funny Old Age Birthday

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

- Bernard Baruch

topic: Birthday, Women, Grows

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Birthday, Philosophy, Educational, Western Philosophy, Absolute Certainty

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

- Bertrand Russell

topic: Birthday, Doors, Dragons, Golden Age

I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your ***** in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.

topic: Birthday, Exercise, Vegetables

Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

- Betty Friedan

topic: Birthday, Inspiring, Uplifting

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.

topic: Birthday, Attitude, School, Lovely Life

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

topic: Birthday, Funny Life, Mistake, Morning Coffee, Mornings And Coffee

Old is always fifteen years from now.

topic: Birthday, Years, High School, Fifteen Years Old, Fifteen Years

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

- Billie Jean King

topic: Birthday, Today, Upside Down

Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday

- Billie Jean King

topic: Birthday, Blessing, Light

When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's

- Billy Eckstine

topic: Birthday, Playing Music, Band

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

topic: Birthday, Age, Problem

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.

topic: Birthday, Song, Jobs

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

topic: Birthday, Insecurity, Age, Competent, Incompetent

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.

topic: Birthday, Life Is, Life Is A Gift, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Inspirational Birthday

If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.

topic: Birthday, Daddy, Want, Uranium Mining, Mining

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

topic: Birthday, Zoos, Australia

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

- Blair Underwood

topic: Birthday, Party, Son, Birthday Party

May you stay Forever Young

topic: Birthday, Forever, May

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

topic: Birthday, Thinking, Years

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

topic: Birthday, Witty, Funny Inspirational, Old Jokes, Celebrate Birthday

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

topic: Birthday, Naps, Age

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

topic: Birthday, Morning, Believe, Witty Birthday, Middle Ages

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.

- Bobby McFerrin

topic: Birthday, San Francisco, Giving

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

- Bobby Sherman

topic: Birthday, Real, Kids, Miniatures

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

topic: Birthday, Dream, Song, Digital Age, Dreaming And Doing

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

- Boris Johnson

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Birthday, Cake, Dessert

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

topic: Birthday, Important, Age

All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.

- Brandy Norwood

topic: Birthday, Girl, Stars

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.

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Birthday, Past, Remember

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

- Brigitte Bardot

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Birthday, Beauty, Life Changing, Milestone Birthday, Enchanting

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

- Brigitte Bardot

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Wise, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

topic: Birthday, Party, Ideas, Birthday Party

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

- Brittany Snow

topic: Birthday, Party, Parent, Birthday Party, Brittany

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

topic: Relationship, Birthday, Children, Inspirational Parents, Mother And Daughter

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.

- Bruce Springsteen

topic: Birthday, Writing, Age

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

topic: Birthday, Talking, Age, 30th Birthday

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

topic: Birthday, Beach, Golf, Golf Carts, Carts

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

- Carl Sandburg

topic: Birthday, Optimism, Unexpected, Unexpected Things, Pleasant Surprises

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

topic: Birthday, Age, Used, Age Of 20

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

- Carrie Mae Weems

topic: Birthday, Art, My Boyfriend, Political Beliefs

When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.

- Casey Stengel

topic: Motivational, Birthday, Baseball, 50th Birthday

I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.

topic: Birthday, Hate, Party

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

topic: Birthday, Mother, Strong

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.

- Cate Blanchett

topic: Birthday, Soulmate, Brother, Friend Enemy

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

topic: Birthday, Age, Looks

The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.

- Catherine Bell

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Birthday, Stars, Fun, Special Effects, Birthday Cake

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

topic: Birthday, One Day, Sometimes, Posh

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

- Chantal Kreviazuk

source: Song: Time, Album: What If It All Means Something, 2002

topic: Birthday, Waiting, Missing

Old age is a shipwreck.

- Charles de Gaulle

topic: Birthday, Age, Aging, Shipwreck

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

- Charles Kingsley

topic: Birthday, Past, Long

There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.

- Charlie Kaufman

topic: Birthday, Men, Views

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

- Charlie Sheen

topic: Birthday, Guy, Age

I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.

source: "Chaz Bono: 'I Always Wanted to Shave'". www.digitalspy.com. November 01, 2009.

topic: Birthday, Shaving, Stuff

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Growing, Inspirational Age, Older People

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

- Chloe Grace Moretz

topic: Birthday, Mom, Fashion, High Fashion

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

topic: Birthday, Children, Nice, Best Kiss

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.

- Chris Hardwick

source: Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.82, Penguin

topic: Birthday, Girl, Song, Playlists, Favorite Song

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

topic: Birthday, Horse, Age

Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

- Christian Dior

topic: Birthday, Women, Race, Turning 40, 40th Birthday

Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.

- Christian Furchtegott Gellert

topic: Positive, Birthday, Death, Life Is Way Too Short

We were probably the last people in the country to get a VCR and we didn't have cable. There wasn't any admiration of glamour, no, 'I want to look like them or have that lifestyle', because everyone in my town had the same lifestyle. So I didn't think, 'Ooh, a movie star's birthday!' I just thought, 'What?'

- Christina Hendricks

topic: Birthday, Country, Stars, Vcr

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

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Birthday, Love Is, Life Is, Wise Birthday, Inspirational Birthday

And may you happy live, And long us bless.

- Christina Rossetti

topic: Birthday, Long, May, Mother Day Poems

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.

- Christine Lahti

topic: Birthday, Fighting, Careers, 30th Birthday, Plastic Surgery

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

- Christopher Lasch

topic: Birthday, Character, Age, Pathology

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

- Christopher Morley

topic: Birthday, Children, Kids

If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

- Christy Moore

topic: Birthday, Regret, Years, Old Birthday, 60th Birthday

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

- Chuck Palahniuk

topic: Birthday, Years, Bully

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

- Clifton Fadiman

topic: Birthday, Wall, Years, Timetables, Consultation

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

- Clint Eastwood

topic: Birthday, Thinking, Important

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

topic: Funny, Birthday, Beauty, Makeup And Beauty, Staying Young

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

topic: Birthday, Girlfriend, Thinking, Beatty

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

- Colleen McCullough

source: "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

topic: Birthday, Appreciation, Women, Milestone Birthday, Old Birthday

At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

topic: Birthday, Heart, Heaven, 40th Birthday, Funny 40 Year Old Birthday

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple ain' - it just can't be done!

- Connie Britton

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Birthday, Girl, Wall, Turntables, Off The Wall

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.

- Craig Ferguson

topic: Birthday, Thinking, Rocks

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

- Dag Hammarskjold

topic: Birthday, Kindness, Self

No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

topic: Birthday, Father, Son, Father And Son

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo

- Dana Rosemary Scallon

topic: Birthday, Chinese, Scholar, Wise Birthday, Funny Birthday Wishes

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

- Danica McKellar

topic: Birthday, Brother, Age, Funny Brother, Two Brothers

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

topic: Birthday, Regret, Ideas

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

- Daniel Day-Lewis

topic: Birthday, Age, Certain

Life, a good life, a great life is about "Why not?" May we never forget it.

- Danielle Steel

topic: Birthday, Good Life, Why Not

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

topic: Birthday, Sex, Eye, Eye Color, Unique Characteristics

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

topic: Birthday, Simple, Men, 50th Birthday

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

topic: Inspirational, Birthday, Believe, Ethnic Background, Above Average

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

topic: Cute, Birthday, Teenage, Mature And Immature, Rainstorms

I left school on my 15th birthday.

topic: Birthday, School

When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.

topic: Birthday, Mom, Nice

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.

- David Horowitz

topic: Birthday, Kings, Holiday

It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'

- David Sedaris

source: "Ask the Author Live: David Sedaris". Interview, www.newyorker.com. August 14, 2009.

topic: Birthday, Nice, Party, Birthday Party, Nice Time

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

- David Ulevitch

topic: Birthday, Mother, Cake

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

- Debbie Macomber

topic: Birthday, Husband, Years

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

- Dee Dee Myers

topic: Birthday, Children, Nursing, Gender Gap

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

- Demetri Martin

topic: Birthday, Christmas, Im Sorry, Merry, Merry Christmas Images

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

- Denis Diderot

topic: Birthday, Goodbye, Farewell

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

topic: Birthday, Time, Men, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Middle Ages

Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles.

topic: Birthday, Fun, Age, Middle Aged, Middle Ages

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

topic: Birthday, Women, Memorable

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

topic: Birthday, Flames, Class, Class Reunion

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

topic: Life, Birthday, Summer

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Just For Fun, Children's Books

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

topic: Birthday, Special, Age, Youthfulness

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

- e. e. cummings

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Birthday, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational High School Graduation

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.

source: Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

topic: Birthday, Children, Heart, Separate But Equal, Qualifications

Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

topic: Birthday, Years, Cities, Birthday Wishes

The awkward moment when Santa accidentally leaves the price tag on your present.

topic: Birthday, Awkward, Santa

But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

topic: Birthday, Europe, Forever, Calculators

I grew up on the golden age of children's TV.

- Edward Norton

topic: Birthday, Children, Age

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

- Edward Steichen

topic: Birthday, Men, Years

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

source: The Love of Fame Satire 2, l. 282 (1725 - 1728)

topic: Birthday, Wise, Fortune Cookie, 40th Birthday, Fools And Wise

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Beautiful, Art, Inspirational Age, Old Person

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, This Too Shall Pass, Advantage

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

topic: Birthday, Family, Mother, Faerie, Fairy Godmother

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

topic: Birthday, Two Sides, Heyday, Shady, 50th Birthday

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

- Elizabeth Taylor

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Thinking

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.

- Elizabeth Taylor

topic: Birthday, Growing Up, Men

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

- Ella Fitzgerald

topic: Love, Birthday, Dream, Singing Songs, Vocal Music

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

- Ellen DeGeneres

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Funny, Life, Birthday, Mother Grandmother, Mothers Day Grandma

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

- Ellen Glasgow

topic: Birthday, Lovely, Forget The Past, Old Birthday, 21st Birthday

And I'm afraid, in this day and age, trust, which I count so, you know, I love loyalty. I love trust.

topic: Birthday, Loyalty, Age, Loyalty Love, Trust Love

My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.

- Emeril Lagasse

topic: Birthday, Mom, Growing Up, Banter

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

- Emily Dickinson

source: Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press

topic: Inspirational, Life, Birthday, Inspirational Age, Emily

If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

- Emma Thompson

topic: Birthday, Broken Heart, Grief

I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.

topic: Birthday, Kids, Gymnastics

At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.

topic: Birthday, Fire, House

Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.

topic: Life, Birthday, Character

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

- Ernest Hemingway

topic: Birthday, Risk, Age

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

topic: Birthday, Years, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday, Best Birthday, Happy Birthday Inspirational

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

topic: Birthday, Mistake, Young, Humorous Birthday, Old Birthday

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

- Eva Herzigova

topic: Birthday, My Birthday, Milan

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

- Evan Rachel Wood

topic: Birthday, Thinking, Ebay

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

- Evan S. Connell

source: EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. (1959). “MRS. BRIDGE”

topic: Birthday, Waiting, Sound, 40th Birthday, Without A Trace

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.

topic: Birthday, Thinking, Law, Old Person

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.

topic: Birthday, Men, Thinking, Cuban Revolution

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.

topic: Birthday, Teacher, Memories, First Birthday

As you age naturally, your family shows more and more on your face. If you deny that, you deny your heritage.

- Frances Conroy

topic: Birthday, Ethos, Age

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

- Francis Bacon

topic: Birthday, Time, Men, Old Guys, Older Man

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful.

- Francis Spellman

topic: Birthday, Men, Age, Milestone Birthday, Turning 40

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Birthday, Funny Motivational, Giving Advice

Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Birthday, People, Giving

Old age is a tyrant, who forbids, under pain of death, the pleasures of youth.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Birthday, Death, Time

It is with an old love as it is with old age a man lives to all the miseries, but is dead to all the pleasures.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Birthday, Men, Age, 30th Birthday, Old Love

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

topic: Birthday, Mind, Age, 30th Birthday

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Birthday, Meaningful, Great Day, Mechanization, Modern Architecture

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.

- Frank Lloyd Wright

topic: Birthday, Happiness, Confidence, Inspirational Birthday

May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.

- Frank Sinatra

topic: Birthday, Music, Voice, 21st Birthday, Quotations Birthday Happy Birthday

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

- Franka Potente

source: Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 5, 2005.

topic: Birthday, Giving

Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Birthday, Memories, Responsible, Fond Memories, Bad Memories

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

- Franklin P. Adams

source: Franklin P. Adams (1944). “Nods and Becks”

topic: Birthday, Men, Two, Funny Birthday

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Birthday, Golf, Age, Middle Ages, Inspirational Birthday

Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!

- Franklin P. Adams

topic: Birthday, Years, Today, 50th Birthday

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

- Frederick Leboyer

topic: Birthday, Unique, Matter

Before anything else, we need a new age of Enlightenment. Our present political systems must relinquish their claims on truth, justice and freedom and have to replace them with the search for truth, justice, freedom and reason.

- Friedrich Durrenmatt

topic: Birthday, Justice, Political, Age Of Enlightenment

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