Birthday Quotes - Page 34

We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination.

What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!

We live in an age where anonymity is growing in magnitude like a bomb going off.

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheese making class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.

So have a day of pleasure Do things that make you smile For .............. you are treasured Today and all the while.

Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.

It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

I'll see a beautiful girl walking up to me and I'll think, Oh, my God, I can't believe my good luck. But then she'll say, 'Where's your son?' or 'My mother loves you'.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.

My mental hands were empty, and I felt I must do something as a counterirritant or antibody to my hysterical alarm at getting married at the age of 43.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

When I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It's like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.

Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast.