Birthday Quotes - Page 40

• I feel more mature than most people my age.

  Leighton Meester

  People, Age, Mature

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• At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

  Naguib Mahfouz

  Age, Pessimistic, Literature

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• Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth.

  Navjot Singh Sidhu

  Fire, Perfect, Age

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• I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

  Paul Cezanne

  Artist, Age, Praying

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• Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and then you finally reach a point, around my age, where you spend more time than ever looking back. Why did this happen? Look where that led? You see the shape of things.

  Ron Perlman

  Age, Events, Looks

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• The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore.

  Ron Perlman

  Careers, Age, Arriving

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• In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.

  Russell Baker

  Fashion, Love You, Age

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• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

  Shimon Peres

  Loneliness, Land, Growth

  "Shimon Peres welcomes Arab uprisings" by Conal Urquhart, www.theguardian.com. April 1, 2011.

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• I've gotten crankier in my old age.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Age, 60th Birthday, Old Age

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• I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.

  William J. Clinton

  Believe, Support, Age

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• The longer I live, the less future there is to worry about.

  Ashleigh Brilliant

  Worry, 60th Birthday

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• If I had to live again I would do exactly the same thing. Of course I have regrets, but if you are 60 years old and you have no regrets then you haven't lived.

  Christy Moore

  Regret, Years, Courses

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• I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.

  Herbert Beerbohm Tree

  Years, Born, Young

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• After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

  Joe Dean

  Children, Parent, Celebrate

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• Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

  John Dryden

  Long, World, Vain

  Juvenal, John Dryden, Nahum Tate, Persius, Richard Duke (1713). “The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis: and of Aulus Persius Flaccus”, p.210

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• Don't worry about middle age: you'll outgrow it.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Worry, Age, Middle

  Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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• Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

  Paul McCartney

  Needs, Unanswered Questions, Four

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• Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

  Milton Friedman

  Morning, Mirrors, Looks

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• Be pleased to look forward,
  And pleased to look behind,
  Count today, your 40th, and each birthday
  With a grateful mind.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Meaningful, Grateful

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• As it's your 40th birthday
  This, we'd like to say
  May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
  On this, your special day.

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Meaningful, Special

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• Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th
  No need to have wisdom and sage
  But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade
  Do try to act more your age

  John Walter Bratton

  Funny, Meaningful, Wind

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• I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

  Ogden Nash

  Age, Berries, Vines

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• At 50, you probably get muddled?
  I'm the same, that's how I know?
  If you ever get lost, don't worry?
  Just change where you want to go

  John Walter Bratton

  Worry, Age, Want

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• At 50 you now have realized
  ?Getting old isn't fair?
  And that it's hard to make a comeback
  ?When you haven't gone anywhere

  John Walter Bratton

  Age, Gone, Aging

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• As it's your 50th birthday
  The very best of cheers to you
  Truthfully, I'm just being selfish
  Coz now I am so cheerful, too
  Happy, Cheerful Birthday

  John Walter Bratton

  Cheer, Selfish, Age

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