Birthday Quotes - Page 34

• From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

  Tom Stoppard

  Long, Age, Six

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• America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

  Meryl Streep

  America, People, Age

  "Aged to perfection: Role model for beauty" by Gail O'Neill, www.cnn.com. March 09, 2003.

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• We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

  Jock Sturges

  Artist, Age, Bombs

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

  Jonathan Swift

  People, Soul, Age

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• I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Growing Up, Men, Wife

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• I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Growing Up, Thinking, Growing

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

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• If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.

  Emma Thompson

  Broken Heart, Grief, Grieving

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Time

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Thoreau on Nature: Sage Words on Finding Harmony with the Natural World”, p.40, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.

  James Thurber

  Sarcastic, Writing, Faces

  1955 In the New York Post, 30 Jun.

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• I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

  Ovid

  Happy Birthday, Dust, Years

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• Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure-and a friend.

  Alexander Pope

  Long, Heaven, Youth

  Alexander Pope (1808). “The poetical works of Alexander Pope. To which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.419

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• The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

  Ben Jonson

  Return, Praying

  Ben Jonson (1756). “Works: Collated with all the former editions, and corrected with notes critical and explanatory”, p.425

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• To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

  Clifton Fadiman

  Wall, Years, Tree

  Clifton Fadiman (1955). “Party of One: The Selectd Writings of Clifton Fadiman”

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• A man thirty years old, I said to myself, should have his field of life all ploughed, and his planting well done; for after that it is summer time.

  Lew Wallace

  Summer, Men, Should Have

  Lew Wallace (2016). “Ben-Hur [Illustrated]”, p.264, XinXii

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• I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Blessing, Offering, Finals

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• You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.

  Seymour Hicks

  Boys, Age, Looks

  In C. R. D. Pulling They Were Singing (1952) ch. 7

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• Let all beings in all the worlds be happy. Include this universal prayer in your prayers every day. This is my birthday message to you.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Prayer, World, Messages

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• I remember, I remember
  The roses, red and white,
  The violets, and the lily-cups,
  Those flowers made of light!
  The lilacs, where the robin built,
  And where my brother set
  The laburmum on his birthday,-
  The tree is living yet.

  Thomas Hood

  Brother, Flower, Light

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.306, Delphi Classics

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• It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

  Billie Jean King

  Today, Upside Down, Ifs

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• Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday

  Billie Jean King

  Blessing, Light, Wish

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• Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day!

  Julie McGregor

  Wish, Way, Wonderful

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• It's your Birthday Just do what You do best Chill out!!

  Julie McGregor

  Chill

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• n this changing world, it's nice to know that one thing is forever... you'll always be my sister! Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Sister

  Rob Jackson

  Nice, Forever, World

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• May today be a happy memory, tomorrow a bright new promise. Happy Birthday

  Rob Jackson

  Memories, Promise, May

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