Birth Quotes - Page 15

Jewellery's not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that's the only time I'm not wearing it. You won't find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half.

My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

Squat 300 times a day, you’re going to give birth quickly.

Inch by inch I conquered the inner terrain I was born with. Bit by bit I reclaimed the swamp in which I'd languished. I gave birth to my infinite being, but I had to wrench myself out of me with forceps.

How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened.

Youth has no age.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

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.

I have always paid income tax. I object only when it reaches a stage when I am threatened with having nothing left for my old age - which is due to start next Tuesday or Wednesday.

The darkness is my birthright.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

It is not how old you are, but how you are old.