Birth Quotes - Page 4

All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

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

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody.

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

By education I am an Englishman, by views an internationalist, by culture a Muslim and a Hindu only by accident of birth.

What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

There is still no cure for the common birthday.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

In the information age, you don't teach philosophy as they did after feudalism. You perform it. If Aristotle were alive today he'd have a talk show.

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.

Seeing the rebirth of the Delaware Estuary as a valuable natural resource is certainly encouraging, and I am encouraged not just by the progress made in the Delaware Estuary but in estuaries throughout the country.