Famous Quotes & Sayings

Genevieve Gorder

The birth of any show is always a rough one.

Henry Rollins

I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

Helen Hayes

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Helen Hayes

Age is not important unless you're a cheese.

Helen Hayes

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up... a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Hedy Lamarr

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

Hector Hugh Munro

It occurred to me that I would like to be a poet. The chief qualification, I understand is that you must be born. Well, I hunted up my birth certificate, and found that I was all right on that score.

Henry Ford

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

James Rollins

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

James Russell Lowell

A man is old when he can pass an apple orchard and not remember the stomachache.

Friedrich Durrenmatt

Pretend to be dumb, that's the only way to reach old age.

Jon Bon Jovi

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

Johnny Vegas

I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

Johnny Ball

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

Johnny Carson

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

Ludwig van Beethoven

What you are, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is only one Beethoven.

And so to every man his chance, To every man regardless of his birth right, his shining golden opportunity; to every man the right to live, to work and to become whatever his vision and his manhood can combine to make him. This, Seeker, is the promise of America.

William Wordsworth

All things have second birth;The earthquake is not satisfied at once.

all new partners, no condoms, no birth control, no consequences at all.

Joseph Bruchac

The Cherokees tried to do everything within the law and wished only to live in peace on their own lands. Yet they were cheated out of their birthright and treated as if they were less than human.

The early birth of it came for us in sixth grade. We were talking about how nice it would be to travel cross-country in college.

The fools take pride in themselves, and are ruined in birth and death.

This is a great birthday present. This is a great turnout here tonight. This is what we want as far as the fans and the support and the enthusiasm of everyone because we want this to be a top tournament for everyone.

Jesse McCartney

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

Enid Bagnold

From birth to death we are alone ...

Jane Wagner

The idea is for students to learn about the human milestones from birth to the aging.

Emmy Rossum

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.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

Norman Rockwell

I'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!

Orson Welles

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.