Famous Quotes & Sayings

Annie Lennox

Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you're very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.

Annie Dillard

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.

D. H. Lawrence

Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.

Clifton Fadiman

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Walter Cronkite

Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.

Lily James

I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times.

Alexander McQueen

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Alexander Pope

Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

Albert Schweitzer

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

Doug Larson

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

Dorothy Thompson

Age is not measured by years. Nature does not equally distribute energy. Some people are born old and tired while others are going strong at seventy.

Dorothy L. Sayers

Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Doris Day

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Colleen McCullough

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

Dolly Parton

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Debbie Macomber

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

Andre Gide

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Ang Lee

Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

Amanda Seyfried

I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

Amanda Seyfried

I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

Amanda Seyfried

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

Chuck Palahniuk

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

Christopher Walken

No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

Christopher Walken

There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

Christopher Morley

We've had bad luck with our kids - they've all grown up.

Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Colin Powell

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Daniel Craig

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

E. B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Douglas Coupland

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.