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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• The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

  Julianna Margulies

  Husband, People, Stories

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• I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

  Katherine Jenkins

  Believe, Moon, Doctors

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• I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

  Marian McPartland

  Party, Years, Trying

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• I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

  Matthew Macfadyen

  Children, Party, Would Be

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• I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

  Mika Brzezinski

  Letting Go, Years, Careers

  "Getting Fired And How It Teaches You To Be A Better Parent" by Mika Brzezinski, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• My mom FedExes a red velvet cake she makes from scratch to me every birthday.

  Molly Sims

  Mom, Cake, Scratches

  "Molly Sims: Fab for fall". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.cnn.com. September 6, 2010.

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• The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

  Rick Springfield

  Guitar, Firsts

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• You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

  Robin Gibb

  Beautiful, Loss, Men

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

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• I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

  Rod Taylor

  Party, Night, August

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