Birthday Quotes - Page 12

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

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Two Sides, Heyday, Fifty

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• Live for something rather than die for nothing.

  George S. Patton

  Military, Army, Dies

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• 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.

  Robert Staughton Lynd

  Second Chance, World, Sun

  Robert Lynd (1969). The Peal of Bells. p.26,

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• I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Care, Guests, Celebrate

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• As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

  Jackson Browne

  Political, Calling, Kind

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• Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

  Sloane Crosley

  Inspirational, Funny, Graduation

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  You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

  Joe DiMaggio

  Sports, Baseball, Party

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Angel, Wind, Keys

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1873). “The Autocrat of the Breakfast-table: Every Man His Own Boswell”, p.214

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• Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.

  Ed Koch

  Years, Cities, Wish

  Twitter post from Dec 12, 2012

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• The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

  Anne Lamott

  Celebrate, Shock, Worst

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• 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

  Talking, Age, Adults

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• Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

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• You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

  Jennifer Lopez

  Flower, Rose, Lasts

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• Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

  Golda Meir

  Men, Other Worlds, Umpires

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

  Alexander Pope

  Graduation, Education, Learning

  Epistles to Several Persons "To Lord Cobham" l. 101 (1734)

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• I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson's birthday party.

  Matthew Sweet

  Party, Dykes, Wilson

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• As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

  Mike Wallace

  Eye, Long, Ears

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• The friend who holds your hand and says the wrong thing is made of dearer stuff than the one who stays away.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Friendship, Best Friend, True Friend

  Barbara Kingsolver (2011). “High Tide in Tucson”, p.88, Faber & Faber

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

  Colleen McCullough

  Appreciation, Women, Memorable

  "Write to the Heart : Wit & Wisdom Of Women Writers". Book by Amber Coverdale Sumrall, 1992.

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• Women are most fascinating between the ages of 35 and 40 after they have won a few races and know how to pace themselves. Since few women ever pass 40, maximum fascination can continue indefinitely.

  Christian Dior

  Women, Race, Eulogy

  1955 In Collier's Magazine, 10 Jun.

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• No love is greater than that of a father for His son.

  Dan Brown

  Father, Son, Love Is

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.421, Simon and Schuster

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• The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

  Voltaire

  Son, World, Firsts

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• 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.

  Douglas Coupland

  Dream, Past, Years

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.1, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Men, Twenties, Four

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