Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Age is opportunity no less than youth itself.

Henry James

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Helena Bonham Carter

I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

Haruki Murakami

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

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 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.

Mikhail Gorbachev

A birthday party will be a modest one, and I shall celebrate it with relatives and friends.

Patrick Sullivan

It's just a thrill to be here with all these players. It's great to meet so many guys from around the league and to get a goal on my birthday was pretty fun.

They made very sure that you saw this birth defect up close. We knew she had a cleft lip and palate. But we wanted to see pictures of all of her, not just the lip.

This has been a special group of guys that have been together a long time. They've had many birthday parties in the wrestling room.

This has been another successful birthday party. We went through two casks in the first hour alone.

They told me we needed a driver's license, valid, and a birth certificate stamped with a seal, is what they told me we needed to (have to) go to Barbados.

They still have a plaque on the wall saying Dean and I lived there and never paid any rent. But the truth is we often put on shows for birthday parties and weddings for hotel guests. That helped keep the wolf from the door.

It's usually a matter of time when somebody's wanted until they have contact with the police and the police run their name and date of birth and their information which generates the want from another agency.

It's not just a birthday party to commemorate 100 years in June 2006. It is a year-long celebration about the last 100 years, and looking into the future to the next 100 years.

For certain is death for the born and certain is birth for the dead; Therefore over the inevitable thou should not grieve

Lauren Holly

It started out, ... with ordering 150 T-shirts that said, 'It's Mark Harmon's birthday,' that we passed out to the entire crew.

Mandy Moore

There's a huge part of my life that I've skipped over, but I'm fine with it. I've maybe been drunk once or twice in my life. In fact, my 21st birthday was in Tokyo, and everyone around me was drunk, but I was sober.

This is the seventh Giro stage win of my career and it's a gift for my son Ewan because it's his third birthday on Wednesday.

Aristotle

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.