Birthday Quotes - Page 27

• Marriage is not about age; it's about finding the right person.

  Sophia Bush

  Inspirational, Funny, Marriage

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• This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

  Lord Byron

  Soul, Age, Patents

  Lord Byron, Donald A. Low (2013). “Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.170, Routledge

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• What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

  Lord Byron

  Life, Time, Grieving

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 2, st. 98

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• In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

  Herman Cain

  Senior, Retirement, Order

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• I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.

  Michael Caine

  Sad, Men, Age

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• Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Age, Faces

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.57, Vintage

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Time, Sorrow, Age

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• It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Real, Men, Age

  Sartor Resartus ch. 4 (1838)

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• A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

  Liz Carpenter

  People, Judging, Judgement

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• After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.

  Barbara Cartland

  Funny, Women, Sunset

  Quoted in Times (London), 6 Oct. 1993.

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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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

  Men, Thinking, Flames

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

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• Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.

  Bennett Cerf

  Age, Middle, Grey

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• I must be more sensible and realize that at my age, illusions are hardly permitted and they will always destroy me.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Age, Realizing

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• My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

  Paul Cezanne

  Dream, Art, Age

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• Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Book, Writing, Epic

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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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• If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.

  Michel Foucault

  Power, Age, Cost

  Michel Foucault (2012). “The History of Sexuality: An Introduction”, p.5, Vintage

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• I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

  Morgan Freeman

  Believe, Age, Acting

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  Aging is not "lost youth" but a new stage of opportunity and strength.

  Betty Friedan

  Strength, Inspiring, Uplifting

  "How to live longer, better, wiser". Betty Friedan, Parade Magazine (pp. 4-6), March 20, 1994.

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• By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Men, Age, Economy

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2015). “The New Industrial State”, p.39, Princeton University Press

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• Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Faith, Religion, Age

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

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• I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Father, Boys, Men

  "Black In Latin America" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., www.huffingtonpost.com. July 28, 2011.

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