Birthday Quotes - Page 29

• I will say this for adversity: people seem to be able to stand it, and that is more than I can say for prosperity.

  Kin Hubbard

  Adversity, People, Able

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• Perhaps middle-age is, or should be, a period of shedding shells; the shell of ambition, the shell of material accumulations and possessions, the shell of the ego.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Ambition, Ego, Age

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2002). “Wisdom from Gift from the Sea”, p.43, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I have everything I had twenty years ago, only it's all a little bit lower.

  Gypsy Rose Lee

  Fun, Years, Age

  "The Making of a Muckraker". Book by Jessica Mitford, p. 113, 1979.

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• Youth is the time for adventures of the body, but age for the triumphs of the mind.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Adventure, Mind, Age

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• It only takes a politician believing in what he says for the others to stop believing him.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Fake People, Believe, Politics

  Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool Memories”, p.215, Verso

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• View life as a continuous learning experience.

  Denis Waitley

  Life, Inspiration, Views

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• Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

  Dolly Parton

  Faces, Aging, March

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• No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

  Cyril Connolly

  Wisdom, Book, Teaching

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• How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!

  George Eliot

  Friendship, Memories, Old Friends

  George Eliot (1860). “Life and Letters”, p.678

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• I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Daughter, Mother

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• Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

  John Heywood

  Gratitude, Horse, Italian

  John Heywood (1562). “The Proverbs, Epigrams, and Miscellanies of John Heywood ...”, p.391

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• I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

  Otis Blackwell

  Redneck, College, Years

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• By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

  Marie Dressler

  Maturity, Turning 50, Important

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

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• One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.

  Pablo Picasso

  Fortune Cookie, Age, Too Late

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• If you want to recapture your youth, just cut off his allowance.

  Al Bernstein

  Inspirational, Teenage, Cutting

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

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• I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

  James Joyce

  Mother, Children, Father

  James Joyce (1976). “Selected letters of James Joyce”, Penguin (Non-Classics)

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• I think I'm past the age of getting lost.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Past, Thinking, Age

  "Amanda Seyfried Is Perfectly Charming In The Film While We’re Young". Interview with Debra Wallace, pcmreviews.com.

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• Over the years Woodstock got glorified and romanticised and became the event that symbolised Utopia. It's the last page of our collective memory of the age of innocence. Then things turned ugly and would never be the same again.

  Ang Lee

  Memories, Years, Collective Memory

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• Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Voice, Age, World

  "Aung San Suu Kyi criticises Burmese election irregularities" by Esmer Golluoglu, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2012.

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• The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

  Daniel Craig

  Regret, Ideas, Insane

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• I'm not afraid of aging.

  Shelley Duvall

  Age, Aging, Not Afraid

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• There is an anti-aging possibility, but it has to come from within.

  Susan Anton

  Age, Aging, Possibility

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• At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
  At thirty, I stood firm.
  At forty, I had no doubts.
  At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
  At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
  At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

  Confucius

  Funny, Meaningful, Heart

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• We don't understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

  Jules Renard

  Twenties, Midlife, Forty

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• Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract.

  Kathy Lette

  Relationship, Humorous, Intelligent

  Kathy Lette (2010). “Men: A User's Guide”, p.1, Random House

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