Birthday Quotes - Page 6

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.

All I want for my birthday is another birthday.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

I think the biggest disease the world suffers from in this day and age is the disease of people feeling unloved. I know that I can give love for a minute, for half an hour, for a day, for a month, but I can give. I am very happy to do that, I want to do that.

I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

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.

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.

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.