Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rabindranath Tagore

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

Puff Daddy

I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books; I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.

Katy Perry

No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Satyajit Ray

At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

Liam Neeson

I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

Lee Iacocca

You, my friend, alone are equal to a hundred of such friends. Happy Birthday to you.

Lauren Hutton

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Lew Wallace

A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

Lewis Carroll

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

Joseph Campbell

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

Joy Page

If every year is a marble, how many marbles do you have left? How many sunrises, how many opportunities to rise to the full stature of your being?

Julianna Margulies

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

Jules Renard

We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Karl Jaspers

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

Oscar Wilde

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Julie Walters

It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

Paul Klee

Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.

Paul McCartney

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

Paul McCartney

...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.

Peter Greenaway

I am Welsh by birth, English by education, and European by nature.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

... Virtue owns a more eternal foe Than Force or Fraud: old Custom, legal Crime, And bloody Faith the foulest birth of Time.

Paulina Porizkova

I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.

Paulina Porizkova

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

Katharine Hepburn

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building.

Katharine Hepburn

Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

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.

Madeleine L'Engle

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

John F. Kennedy

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

James M. Barrie

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.