50th Birthday Quotes - Page 5

• I'm 36 and if I met a woman of my own age and married her, I'd also be marrying her former life, her past. It might be OK for some people - I don't want to judge it or anything - but it's not for me. It would destroy my creativity.

  Henry Rollins

  Birthday, Creativity, Past

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

  Bertrand Russell

  Birthday, Age, Dams

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Unpopular Essays”, p.62, Routledge

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• 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

  Birthday, Doors, Dragons

  Bertrand Russell (1957). “Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

  Maria Sharapova

  Birthday, Age, Pasta

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• My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I've begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I've had it good and am crumbling nicely.

  Lionel Blue

  Birthday, Mother, Age

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• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.

  Mark Twain

  Happy Birthday, Growing Up, Age

  Mark Twain (2010). “Mark Twain's Own Autobiography: The Chapters from the North American Review”, p.113, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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

  Rod Stewart

  Birthday, Fatherhood, Age

  "Rod Stewart: I burst into tears when Penny said she was pregnant". www.mirror.co.uk. November 1, 2010.

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• Now, they're saying I groped a male staffer. Yes, I did. Not only did I grope him, I tickled him until he couldn't breathe and four guys jumped on top of me. It was my 50th birthday.

  Eric Massa

  Guy, Dumb, Males

  "Exclusive: Eric Massa on 'Glenn Beck'". "Glenn Beck Program", www.foxnews.com. March 9, 2010.

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.
  [Lat., Mature fieri senem, si diu velis esses senex.]

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Long, Wish

  "De Senectute", 10, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 12-17,

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• How to celebrate the 50th birthday: Go on your knees and thank God (Jesus Christ) for the life of T.B. Joshua. Pray for the Church of God for a strong bond of love. Pray for your nation and the whole world. As you rededicate yourself to the acts of giving for the rest of your life, God bless you. Happy Birthday!

  T. B. Joshua

  Jesus, Strong, Giving

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• At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.

  Lena Dunham

  Birthday, Kids, Careers

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• I'm sorry to inform you that your 50 year warranty has expired on your back, knees, and memory. Luckily your lifetime warranty on your heart is still in effect. Of course, that becomes void and expires when you do.

  Kin Hubbard

  Birthday, Sorry, Memories

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• At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday.

  H. H. Asquith

  Birthday, Getting Older, Age

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• I've never been more in love with anyone nearly half my age than I am today. I'd get married in a minute if I weren't still married to somebody else.

  Rod Stewart

  Birthday, Age, Half

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• I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Birthday, Sweat, Hot Flashes

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• I recently turned fifty, which is young for a tree, mid-life for an elephant, and ancient for a quarter-miler, whose son now says, "Dad, I just can't run the quarter with you anymore, unless I bring something to read."

  Bill Cosby

  Running, Dad, Son

  Bill Cosby (1987). “Time Flies”

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• We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

  John F. Kennedy

  Birthday, Determination, War

  Address to the United Nations General Assembly, delivered 25 September 1961

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• I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

  Heidi Klum

  Birthday, Mirrors, Fake

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• At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

  Daniel Day-Lewis

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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• I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

  Clint Eastwood

  Birthday, Thinking, Important

  "Eastwood: Unknown 'Gran Torino' cast 'a chance'". The Associated Press Interview, www.sandiegouniontribune.com. December 10, 2008.

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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  Fidel Castro

  Birthday, Men, Thinking

  Fidel Castro's letter from prison, December 19, 1953.

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• The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

  Princess Diana

  Birthday, People, Feelings

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• Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be told your efforts are not needed because you are the wrong age is a crime.

  Johnny Ball

  Birthday, Effort, Tragedy

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• In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

  Timothy Leary

  Philosophy, Decision, Age

  "The Best Advice Ever for Teachers" by Charles McGuire and Diana Abitz, (p. 57), 2001.

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• Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Birthday, Age, Aging

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