Famous Quotes & Sayings

Loretta Lynn

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

Lord Chesterfield

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

Malcolm Forbes

Old age is not for sissies.

Malcolm Cowley

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Mahatma Gandhi

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

Mahatma Gandhi

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

Gustave Flaubert

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

John Dryden

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

John Dryden

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

John Dryden

Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

John Mayer

I was very successful from a very early age, and I want to keep it.

John Mayer

Look, demanding somebody do anything in this day and age is not going to fly.

John Mayer

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

John Lydon

Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.

John Linder

It is simply a fact that the birth rate of our illegal immigrants exceeds that of our legal residents.

John L. Phillips

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

Jimmy Buffett

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

Emily Oster

There is some risk to increase birth defects if you do a lot of outdoor gardening when you are pregnant. That can increase rates of toxoplasmosis.

Lois Wyse

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

T. S. Eliot

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

Taylor Caldwell

My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.

Trey Anastasio

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

Robin Gibb

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

Rob Jackson

May today be a happy memory, tomorrow a bright new promise. Happy Birthday

Rob Jackson

n this changing world, it's nice to know that one thing is forever... you'll always be my sister! Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Sister

Rob Jackson

May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday

Richard J. Needham

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

Richard Dawkins

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Richard Bach

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.

Victoria Beckham

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.