Famous Quotes & Sayings

Christopher Walken

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Christopher Walken

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Morley

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

Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Colin Powell

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Daniel Craig

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.'

E. B. White

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.

Douglas Horton

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Douglas Coupland

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Douglas Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Annette Funicello

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

Anna Magnani

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

Andre Maurois

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

Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Anthony Burgess

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

He was a simple guy, a quiet person, always good-natured. On every birthday he would bring me something, like a bouquet of flowers. He sent me something on every holiday. He never forgot me.

He was always the first to learn lyrics to new songs, and he remembered everyone's birthdays and anniversaries. That, plus car license numbers. He knew it all. He would always remind us if an important date was coming up.

We're glad with the way this is turning out and we hope kids walk away from this with a visual presentation of Christmas and that it's the birth of Christ,

Rodney Atkins

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

Maya Angelou

Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; it saves man from the torments of birth and death.

William Shenstone

Of all that gives politeness birth,Of all that claims to please,In motion, manners, or in mirth,The surest source is ease.

Rodney Dangerfield

One year they wanted to make me poster boy - for birth control

Kate Christensen

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

Jonathan Keltz

My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.

John Doyle

Memphis has forever been known as the capital of blues music and, of course, the birthplace of rock 'n' roll, with Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis. What we do primarily is focus on the music indigenous to Memphis and the music it influenced -- today's alternative rock and hip-hop.

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

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

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.

Ben Jonson

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