50th Birthday Quotes - Page 5

• The age in which we live, this non-stop distraction, is making it more impossible for the young generation to ever have the curiosity or discipline... because you need to be alone to find out anything.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Birthday, Young Generation, Discipline

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• It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

  Virginia Woolf

  Birthday, Running, People

  1922 Jacob's Room, ch.6.

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• Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

  Lois Wyse

  Birthday, Reality, Age

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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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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• Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  Happy Birthday, Friends, Years

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• When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

  Maya Angelou

  Birthday, Men, Age

  Maya Angelou (2015). “The Complete Poetry”, p.266, Random House

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• The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love.

  Jean Renoir

  Birthday, Years, People

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• Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

  Franklin P. Adams

  Birthday, Golf, Age

  Nods and Becks (1944)

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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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• 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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• The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.

  Eminem

  Birthday, Kids, Age

  "Being Eminem". Interview with Anthony Bozza, www.theguardian.com. May 16, 2009.

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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 am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

  Billy Joel

  Birthday, Insecurity, Age

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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'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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