Birthday Quotes - Page 23

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

We're still living with the old paradigm of age as an arch. That's the old metaphor: You're born, you peak at midlife and decline into decrepitude.

You think the dead we loved ever truly leave us?

At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!

Confidence is something you're born with. I know I had loads of it even at the age of 15.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.

Old age is a shipwreck.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

One man in his time plays many parts.

You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.

One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name

Now is the age of anxiety.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

In the age of the individual's liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.