Famous Quotes & Sayings

Shirley Jones

I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his birthday.

James Hillman

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Groucho Marx

I must confess, I was born at a very early age.

Harvey Weinstein

It's the golden age of French cinema again but it's because Sarkozy had the guts to push through copyright law.

Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

Isla Fisher

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

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.

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

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 Stewart

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

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.

Washington Irving

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

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.

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.

Samuel Johnson

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

Ronald Reagan

Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock.

W. Somerset Maugham

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Yotam Ottolenghi

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

His birthday is something I do enjoy pointing out or celebrating or recognizing myself personally, because that was always a lot of fun with him.

Amanda Marshall

I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.