Famous Quotes & Sayings

Douglas Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Amos Bronson Alcott

A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.

Annette Funicello

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.

Anna Magnani

Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

Andre Maurois

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

He was a simple guy, a quiet person, always good-natured. On every birthday he would bring me something, like a bouquet of flowers. He sent me something on every holiday. He never forgot me.

He was always the first to learn lyrics to new songs, and he remembered everyone's birthdays and anniversaries. That, plus car license numbers. He knew it all. He would always remind us if an important date was coming up.

Kate Christensen

My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.

Jonathan Keltz

My 21st birthday was awesome. I was in L.A., and it was great. I had a bunch of friends that came out. The night ended up in a completely different direction than we thought it was going to go.

My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Ben Jonson

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

David Bowie

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

She loves Oprah, and she's going to be in Chicago for her birthday anyway. What better way to continue to celebrate.

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.

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Gary Cole

So I had no concept that there was this whole culture of memos, supervisors, meetings, casual Fridays and lame birthday parties.

Denis Diderot

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

Dee Dee Myers

Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more - even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there's a gender gap.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Andy Cole

My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedicate my two goals to him.

Robert Webb

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.

Susan B. Anthony

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Brandon Boyd

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

Boris Johnson

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

Bobby Sherman

One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.

Abraham Lincoln

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum!