Birth Quotes - Page 7

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

The older I get, the greater power I seem to have to help the world; I am like a snowball - the further I am rolled the more I gain.

Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get.

There is no other organ quite like the uterus. If men had such an organ they would brag about it. So should we

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.

After thirty, a body has a mind of its own.

We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing...a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

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.

Live your life to the fullest.

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breaths away.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying, toys not included.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

I think the person who takes a job in order to live - that is to say, for the money - has turned himself into a slave.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit.

My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail.

Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , "We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works." And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working.

The birth of the reader must be at the cost of the death of the Author.

I don't feel old. I don't feel anything till noon. That's when it's time for my nap.