Birthday Quotes - Page 23

• Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Thank You, Mother Daughter, Children

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• The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Age, Aging, Trouble

  1954 Company Manners,'The Spirit of The Age'.

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• Whether 60 or 16, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of what's next, and the joy of the game of living. In the center of your heart and my heart there is a wireless station; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, courage and power from men and from God, so long are you young.

  Samuel Ullman

  Funny, Cheer, Children

  "Youth". Essay by Samuel Ullman, www.beliefnet.com. 1920.

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• I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it.

  Eva Gabor

  Loyalty, Believe, Age

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• On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!

  Akshay Kumar

  Years, Wife, Age

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• Oh, to be seventy again!

  Georges Clemenceau

  Funny, Humor, Age

  "Ego 3". Book by James Agate, 1938.

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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

  Sorry, Memories, Heart

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• A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Love, Death, Men

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• I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.

  Johnny Vegas

  Sex, School, Mind

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• It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

  Gore Vidal

  Believe, Exercise, Age

  Encounter Dec. 1967, "French Letters: Theories of the New Novel"

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• As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

  Gore Vidal

  Perfect, Progress, Age

  The Observer, February 7, 1982.

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• There probably aren't a lot of actors my age who tap dance.

  Christopher Walken

  Age, Actors, Tap Dance

  "Christopher Walken Interview - HAIRSPRAY" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. July 8, 2007.

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• No, but way before that, I've been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.

  Christopher Walken

  Years, Age, Video

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• It seems that when you get to a certain age you almost give yourself permission to misbehave and say what you think. People allow it, with very old people.

  Julie Walters

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.

  Earl Warren

  Children, Heart, Race

  Brown v. Board of Education (1954) See John M. Harlan (1833 - 1911) 1; Kerner 1

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• I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run.

  Michael Weatherly

  Running, Women, Wine

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• 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

  Young Generation, Discipline, Curiosity

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• 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

  Attitude, School, Thinking

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

  E. B. White

  Special, Age, Able

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• Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

  Kristen Wiig

  People, Worry, Age

  "Would you like to be my bridesmaid?" by Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. June 11, 2011.

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• I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

  Kristen Wiig

  Men, Age, Feels

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

  Oscar Wilde

  Witty, Time, Humorous

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.1389, GENERAL PRESS

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• High expectations weren't nurtured in my neck of nowhere back then - children weren't fawned over from an early age as 'gifted' and groomed for a prizewinning future; self-esteem was considered something you had to pick from the garden yourself.

  James Wolcott

  Children, Self Esteem, Garden

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• I'm not as far along as Jack Nicklaus was at this age, but I'm trying.

  Tiger Woods

  Sports, Age, Trying

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• It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

  Virginia Woolf

  Hard Work, Age, Extravagance

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2009). “Selected Essays”, p.26, Oxford University Press

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