Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frederick Leboyer

Birth may be a matter of a moment, but it is a unique one.

Evel Knievel

I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.

Eugene O'Neill

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Euripides

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

Francis Ford Coppola

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

Francis Bacon

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

I decided since it was my birthday I was going to shoot it anyway.

Tom Flores

I am planning on getting my son a bow for his birthday. By having him take this class and rent a bow, I know what kind to get him.

Jean Paul

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

Jerry Seinfeld

Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's not to be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we are to the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.

Jim Bishop

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly.

Jill Clayburgh

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

Jesse McCartney

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making 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.

Everything went just well for me today. It is my birthday so I have double reason to celebrate today. I think I can have two drinks tonight to celebrate the two events.

Every time I have a birthday I do the math real quick and see how old he would have been.

Birthday is a salty word if your not a fan of cake and ice cream.

Tim Henman

Everything so far has been a bonus and this is a good way to finish my birthday.

Pankaj Mishra

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

Suzi Quatro

I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.

Ryan Lochte

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Washington's Birthday is a time to get people started. Hopefully most of the winter is gone.

Hilary Duff

I've never had a birthday this cool before,

They all three work around me like I'm nothing. You can find them involved in pretty much everything we do here from painting fingernails to decorating for birthday parties. They are a special group of ladies.

We go the mall together, have birthday parties together. Because our families live so far away, we have an extended family within the group on and off the stage.

Billy Graham

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

Meryl Streep

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

There are sectors of the world awash in money and venture capital, ... But if you are a woman with a minimum-wage job who has been catering birthday parties for supplemental income, the world is not awash in capital for you.

At the end, he was getting 10 grand a night, he was playing Richard Gere 's birthday party,

Jeremih

'Down on Me' can't showcase my true talent. 'Birthday Sex' was robotic. When I perform it, I can't give you this church feeling I know I can give.

Victoria Principal

Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of my lungs with perverted lyrics. And she loved it. I tried to get in touch a few times, but she really wanted to be on her own.

Wayne Coyne

There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

Rainer Maria Rilke

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.