Birthday Quotes - Page 30

• You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

  William Dean Howells

  Confidence, Time, Age

  William Dean Howells (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of William Dean Howells (Illustrated)”, p.1454, Delphi Classics

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• The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Friendship, Giving Up, Real

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  A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path.

  Agatha Christie

  Love, Family, Mothers Day

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• Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

  Prince

  Party, Young Birthday

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• I ain't as good as I once was, But I'm as good once as I ever was.

  Toby Keith

  Song: I Ain't As Good As I Once Was, Album: Honkytonk University, 2005

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• Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

  Chantal Kreviazuk

  Waiting, Missing, Moments

  Song: Time, Album: What If It All Means Something, 2002

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• The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

  Max Lerner

  Change, Real, Creativity

  Max Lerner (1959). “The Unfinished Country”

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• I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.

  Al Forman

  Humorous, Fans, Cards

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• The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

  Hume Cronyn

  Important, Age, Energy

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• The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

  Sharon Olds

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• 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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