Famous Quotes & Sayings

He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, and that seemed to be working. ... The only thing he wanted was to see his child. He told Kelly he wanted to say goodbye. Obviously we were not going to do that.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.

We look forward, ... to when Fidel Castro's birthday gives way to the possibility of celebrating democracy in Cuba.

Russell Baker

In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

Sara Blakely

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Warren Beatty

My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.

W. H. Auden

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

Rodney Dangerfield

People seldom live up to their baby pictures.

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.

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.

Sandra Bullock

Does age matter? Time doesn't matter.

Roseanne Barr

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

Roger Moore

I nearly died of double bronchial pneumonia at the age of five.

Roger Moore

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Rod Taylor

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

Rod Stewart

At my age you don't go into fatherhood lightly.

Rod Stewart

I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

Willard Scott

I get all fired up about aging in America.

Wilson Mizner

The first hundred years are the hardest.

Will Rogers

Some people try to turn back their odometers. Not me, I want people to know “why” I look this way. I’ve traveled a long way and some of the roads weren’t paved.

William Barclay

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

Washington Irving

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Walter Lord

Brilliantly lit from stem to stern, she looked like a sagging birthday cake.

Voltaire

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Voltaire

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

Voltaire

He who has not the spirit of this age, has all the misery of it.

Voltaire

It is not more surprising to be born twice than once; everything in nature is resurrection.

Voltaire

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

William Feather

One compensation of old age is that it excuses you from picnics.

William Butler Yeats

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

Walter Dean Myers

I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Yigal Azrouel

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties.

Rick Springfield

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.