Birthday Quotes - Page 26

• 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

  Important, Age, Rewards

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• My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

  Chris Brown

  Children, Nice, Kissing

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• After you're older, two things are possibly more important than any others: health and money.

  Helen Gurley Brown

  Retirement, Money, Two

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• Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Inspirational, Funny, Laughter

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• A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

  Robert Browning

  Dream, Age, Faces

  Robert Browning (1872). “In a balcony. Dramatis personae. Dramatic romances”, p.141

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• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Life, Age, Sentimental

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• Any new financial order for the world must tackle the three chief challenges of our age.

  James Buchan

  Order, Challenges, Age

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• There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

  James Buchan

  Running, Average, Selling More

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• Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

  Lydia M. Child

  Love, Childhood, Age

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• Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

  Margaret Cho

  Party, Would Be, Want

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• I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

  Noam Chomsky

  Mother, Past, People

  "Question time". Interview with Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. November 30, 2003.

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• I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

  Billy Graham

  Age, Aging, Problem

  "I hope they'll say that he was faithful". Interview with Katie Couric, www.today.com. June 23, 2005.

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• But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I'm very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.

  Tom Hanks

  Thinking, Years, Long

  "Desert island risks". Interview with Danny Leigh, www.theguardian.com. January 12, 2001.

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• The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

  Tom Hanks

  Crush, Baby, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

  Salma Hayek

  Spiritual, Believe, Age

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• To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

  William Hazlitt

  Time, Age, Youth

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• Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Risk, Age, Literature

  Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco

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• Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Sex, Past, Opposites

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• On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

  Eva Herzigova

  My Birthday, Milan, Collections

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• All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

  James Hillman

  Growing Up, School, Kids

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• I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.

  Bob Hope

  Naps, Age, Noon

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• Fun is like life insurance; the older you get, the more it costs.

  Kin Hubbard

  Fun, Cost, Insurance Agent

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• When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

  Victor Hugo

  Time, Positive Thinking, Wrinkles

  Victor Hugo (1994). “Les Miserables Volume Two”, p.905, Wordsworth Editions

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• Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

  Victor Hugo

  Funny, Men, Thinking

  "Bracebridge Hall". Book by Washington Irving, 1822.

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Children, Mean, Enthusiasm For Life

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