Birthday Quotes - Page 30

• 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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• 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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• Funny, but after trading for more than 15 years, I still am capable of forgetting a cardinal rule: The paper you own, in the end, will be intertwined with the fate of the 30-year bond.

  Jim Cramer

  Business, Fate, Years

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• The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

  Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

  Winning, And Love, World

  "Changes". Poem by Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, published in John Bartlett "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", 10th edition, 1919.

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• You can't go around the theatres handing out cards saying, 'It isn't my fault'. You go onto the next one.

  Preston Sturges

  Theatre, Cards, Next

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• Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.

  Roger Mahony

  Law, Guilt, States

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• If you have nothing to say for yourself then kindly keep your mouth shut!

  Roland Freisler

  Mouths, Ifs

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• As men get older, the toys get more expensive.

  Marvin Davis

  Men, Toys, Expensive

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• The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

  Mason Cooley

  Journey, Hiking, Age

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