Birthday famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
-- A. N. Wilson -
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?
-- Abdallah II -
An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.
-- Agatha Christie -
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
-- Aimee Bender -
Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin
-- Alan Bennett -
Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.
-- Alanis Morissette -
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
-- Albert Camus -
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.
-- Alexander McQueen -
Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
-- Alexander Pope -
Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.
-- Alexander Pope -
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
-- Alphonse Karr -
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.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.
-- Amy Weber -
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
-- Andre Maurois -
Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.
-- Andy Borowitz -
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.
-- Ang Lee -
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
-- Anita Baker -
Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
-- Ann Brashares -
Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.
-- Anna Magnani -
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
-- Annette Funicello -
A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.
-- 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 Lennox -
If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people.
-- Anthony -
Each moment of a happy lover's hour is worth an age of dull and common life.
-- Aphra Behn -
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
-- Arnold Bennett -
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
-- Art Buchwald -
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.
-- Arthur Schopenhauer -
The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.
-- Ashleigh Brilliant -
As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
-- Ashley Jensen -
And the beauty of a woman, with passing years only grows!
-- Audrey Hepburn -
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
-- Audrey Hepburn -
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
-- Barbara Cartland -
It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.
-- Baron de Montesquieu -
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
-- Barry White -
The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.
-- Ben Jonson -
It's really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn't even more fraud. After all, with no God, there's no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.
-- Ben Stein -
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
-- Benjamin Franklin -
Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
-- Bennett Cerf -
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
-- Bernard Baruch -
We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.
-- Bernard Baruch -
To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.
-- Bertrand Russell -
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I consider the 70s to be the youth of old age. So all you women out there who are afraid of getting older, just keep your ***** in place, eat a lot of vegetables, take exercise, and you'll be fine.
-- Betty Dodson -
Aging is not lost youth but a new stage of opportunity and strength.
-- Betty Friedan -
I think it's your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and that's a waste of a lovely life. 'Oh... I'm 30, oh, I'm 40, oh, 50.' Make the most of it.
-- Betty White -
Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.
-- Bill Cosby -
It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
-- Billie Jean King -
Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday
-- Billie Jean King -
When you're playing music, say for instance, you're playing a part of the band and you're looking at your music, your horn is down into the stand. This way, it's
-- Billy Eckstine -
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
-- Billy Graham -
In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.
-- Billy Joel -
I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.
-- Billy Joel -
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life.
-- Billy Mills -
If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.
-- Bindi Irwin -
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
-- Blair Underwood -
I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.
-- Bob Geldof -
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
-- Bob Hope -
I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.
-- Bob Hope -
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
-- Bob Hope -
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
-- Bobby McFerrin -
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.
-- Bobby Sherman -
What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.
-- Bono -
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
-- Boris Johnson -
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.
-- Brandon Boyd -
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.
-- Brandy Norwood -
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.
-- Brian Jones -
Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
-- Brigitte Bardot -
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
-- Brit Marling -
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
-- Brittany Snow -
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
-- Bruce Barton -
I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.
-- Bruce Springsteen -
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.
-- Cameron Diaz -
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
-- Carl Sandburg -
At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!
-- Carlos Ghosn -
I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.
-- Carrie Mae Weems -
When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you're older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.
-- Casey Stengel -
I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
-- Cat Deeley -
I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.
-- Cate Blanchett -
If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.
-- Cate Blanchett -
It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.
-- Cate Blanchett -
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
-- Catherine Bell -
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.
-- Celine Dion -
Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass
-- Chantal Kreviazuk -
Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.
-- Charles Kingsley -
There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.
-- Charlie Kaufman -
I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.
-- Charlie Sheen -
I always wanted to shave. It is a very natural process. For my birthday I got a lot of shaving stuff.
-- Chaz Bono -
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
-- Chili Davis
