Birthday Quotes - Page 31

• 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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• I get all fired up about aging in America.

  Willard Scott

  Fire, America, Aging

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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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• Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

  Evan S. Connell

  Funny, Meaningful, Waiting

  EVAN S. CONNELL, JR. (1959). “MRS. BRIDGE”

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• Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Funny, Meaningful, Men

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2013). “Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)”, p.817, Delphi Classics

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• There is so much more than that little space from 14 to 40. And if you cut that off and begin to believe that you are not good past a certain age, then you end up scared and insecure and afraid. That is definitely NOT beautiful.

  Rene Russo

  Funny, Beautiful, Meaningful

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• My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

  Ian Fleming

  Funny, Meaningful, Hands

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• By Time and Age full many things are taught.

  Aeschylus

  Age, Taught, Aging

  Aeschylus (1931). “Prometheus Bound: Translated Into English Rhyming Verse, with Introduction and Notes”

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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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• Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization.

  Robert Foster Bennett

  Self, Achievement, Understanding

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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 was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Sweat, Hot Flashes, Age

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• Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Men, Vision, Age

  "What I Think". Book by Adlai E. Stevenson (p. 142), 1956.

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• The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

  Joey Barton

  Men, Iraq, Justice

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• Age steals away all things, even the mind.

  Virgil

  Philosophical, Mind, Age

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• I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

  Stephen Hopkins

  Night, Agriculture, People

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• For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

  Chris Evans

  Youth, Indignation

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

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• He has a profound respect for old age. Especially when it's bottled.

  Gene Fowler

  Respect, Profound, Age

  Attributed to Gene Fowler in Judy Valon "In Your 60s", 2009.

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• At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

  Helen Hayes

  Laughing, Age, Needs

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• I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

  James Caan

  Beautiful, Girl, Mother

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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