Famous Quotes & Sayings

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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

David Bowie

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Britney Spears

She said giving birth should be a very private thing for just Kevin and her to share, and that she's not sure she wants the whole world looking on.

O mind, search for such a True Guru, by serving whom the pains of birth and death are dispelled.

Someday she will understand what she did for us, ... that her birth was a rebirth for us. I'm going to thank her for coming to us at this time.

She loves Oprah, and she's going to be in Chicago for her birthday anyway. What better way to continue to celebrate.

Robert Staughton Lynd

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

Joy Harjo

Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Bob Dole

Now we meet in the birthplace of American liberty to renew our social contract. We look to Governor Bush and Secretary Cheney to raise our sights, and to restore honor and civility to our public life.

Naturally, man has to seek all means of discovering the meaning of Life, for without knowing it, he is lost; he wanders from birth to birth, receiving knock after knock and is seldom the better for all the experience.

Rhea Perlman

No child should be raised in a system. A system isn't a parent. Even the system knows this, which is why the Children and Family Services Division puts so much effort into finding permanent homes for the kids who are never going to be reunited with their birth parents.

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long.

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

Serving the True Guru, one finds a lasting peace, the pains of birth and death are removed.

Gary Cole

So I had no concept that there was this whole culture of memos, supervisors, meetings, casual Fridays and lame birthday parties.

Denis Diderot

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.

Dee Dee Myers

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.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Andy Cole

My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedicate my two goals to him.

Robert Webb

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

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.

Boris Johnson

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

Bobby Sherman

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.

David Barton

What identity thieves are after is a profile, and a profile includes a home address, your birth date and your Social Security number. We have so many employees working out there with false credentials.

Abraham Lincoln

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!

I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I fell in love with it and have been flying off and on ever since.

Bill Cosby

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Bill Cosby

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

Richard Johnson

I think he felt he was part of a Hollywood community. He would do wedding announcements and birth announcements. He wasn't interested in sexual peccadilloes and drug habits. And my readers are much more interested in sexual peccadilloes and drug habits.