Birthday Quotes - Page 36

• We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

  Paul Ryan

  Senior, Order, People

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• I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin.

  Zoe Saldana

  Age, Skins, Different

  "Zoe Saldana's Star Turn". Interview with Monica Corcoran, www.womenshealthmag.com. April 13, 2009.

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  George Santayana

  Passion, Pride, Age

  George Santayana (1934). “Little essays drawn from the writings of George Santayana”, p.22, Рипол Классик

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• Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Philosophy, Class, Creating

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• Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight.

  Jessica Savitch

  Writing, Age, Records

  Jessica Savitch (1982). “Anchorwoman”, Putnam Publishing Group

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• In passing, we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

  Francis Schaeffer

  Age, Aging, Curious

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• Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Power, Idols, Age

  Friedrich Schiller (2012). “On the Aesthetic Education of Man”, p.26, Courier Corporation

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• There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Men, Self, Community

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• I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.

  Amanda Seyfried

  My Birthday, Suits, Comfortable

  Interview with Justin Timberlake, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 18, 2011.

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• It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

  Amanda Seyfried

  Anxiety, Age, Aging

  "Amanda Seyfried: The Most Down-To-Earth Member of the Glam New Guard". Interview with Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. March 2, 2010.

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• I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

  Maria Sharapova

  Age, Pasta, Lines

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• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  Gail Sheehy

  Perception, Age, Middle

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

  Charlie Sheen

  Should Have, Guy, Age

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

  Kevin Smith

  Guy, Saws, Firsts

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• At the age when Bengali youth almost inevitably writes poetry, I was listening to European classical music.

  Satyajit Ray

  Writing, Europe, Listening

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• My goodness, you're 60 already, already
  Time is a thief
  But still, you're only as old as your tongue
  And a little bit older than your teeth
  Have a wonderful birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Teeth, Thieves, Littles

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• Congratulations on turning 60
  Now you can wear what you like
  No one cares, and more particularly
  You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'

  John Walter Bratton

  Congratulations, Ems, Care

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• It's a good thing wrinkles don't start 'til you're 50ish.
  So, wrinkles, then Happy 60th, and then
  Just think, you'll be 70
  In just those short years, numbering ten

  John Walter Bratton

  Thinking, Wrinkles, Years

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• On your birthday today, don't
  Look up 'Life Expectancy' coz I suspect
  As you've reached 60, you want to be happy,
  Trust me, you'll be depressed.

  John Walter Bratton

  Looks, Want, Today

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• Don't be pessimistic
  Because, today, the sun hasn't shone
  It probably won't next year
  And you'll then be 61

  John Walter Bratton

  Years, Pessimistic, Next Year

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• You won't now tell people you're in your 60′s
  Indeed, you'll have to pretend, no end
  That you're close to being 70
  Let me be the first to agree, old friend

  John Walter Bratton

  People, Old Friends, Firsts

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• You really must stop acting
  Like a 20-year-old, gold plated
  In a midlife crisis
  You just graduated
  Happy 60th

  John Walter Bratton

  Years, Acting, Gold

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• On your 60th, here's something philosophical
  To give the old grey matter a stir
  How old would you be
  If you didn't know how old you were?

  John Walter Bratton

  Philosophical, Grey Matter, Giving

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• You're 60
  But honestly it doesn't show
  Mind you, you reached the age of consent
  About 50,000 consents ago!

  John Walter Bratton

  Mind, Age, Honestly

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• True Friends are the bacon bits
  In the salad bowl of life. How true
  I read that and straight away,
  My thoughts turned to you
  And especially today on your 60th
  These special wishes I send
  Have a really wonderful birthday
  My special "bacon flavored" friend

  John Walter Bratton

  True Friend, Special, Wish

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