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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• I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

  Woody Allen

  Life Is, Thirds

  The Observer Review, 1996.

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• Here I sit, alone at 60,
  Bald and fat and full of sin
  Cold the seat, and loud the cistern
  As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

  Alan Bennett

  Tin, Cold, Sin

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• Sixty years is cause enough to sing
  In celebration of a gentle life!
  To the mother and the wife,
  Taking pleasure in what love might bring,
  Yearning for what's worth the treasuring.

  Nick Gordon

  Mother, Years, Wife

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• Old age and the passage of time teach all things.

  Sophocles

  Time, Age, Aging

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• Hey, it's your birthday ?. Sit back, relax and enjoy it ? you've earned it! Have a Great One.

  Margaret Jones

  Relax, Hey, Enjoy

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• My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Mom, Fashion, Stuff

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• No lie ever reaches old age.

  Sophocles

  Lying, Age, Aging

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