Birthday Quotations | Page 5

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

The one thing that unites all human beings, regardless of age, gender, religion or ethnic background, is that we all believe we are above-average drivers.

On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.

I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line.

Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times.

Oh rage! Oh despair! Oh age, my enemy!

Children rarely want to know who their parents were before they were parents, and when age finally stirs their curiosity, there is no parent left to tell them.

You can have a spiritual awakening and discover a new side of you at any age. And best of all, love can happen at any age. Life can just start to get exciting when you're in your 40s and 50s. You have to believe that.

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.

In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.

We grow neither better or worse as we get old, but more like ourselves.

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

Even in this day and age, if you're not married, there are people who are like, 'Awww! Don't worry, it'll happen for you someday.'

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

I'm not skinny for the wrong reasons. It's not because I'm bulimic or anorexic or doing drugs. Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock - it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother's house... I had a little attitude.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

Compared to a lot of actresses my age, I'm actually overweight.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

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

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

It's ironic that at age 32, at probably the greatest moment of my career, with The Godfather having such an enormous success, I wasn't even aware of it, because I was somewhere else under the deadline again.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.

Many believe - and I believe - that I have been designated for this work by God. In spite of my old age, I do not want to give it up; I work out of love for God and I put all my hope in Him.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be.

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.

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

I feel like women are asked their age more than men.

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you.

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

My view is pensioners don't have the one option that people of working age have. They can't really increase their income, because they are no longer able to work.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

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

The information encoded in your DNA determines your unique biological characteristics, such as sex, eye color, age and Social Security number.

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

I can't look in the mirror and look at fake things. I just can't. I'd rather age.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.

At a certain age it just became apparent to me that this was probably the work that I would have to do.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Every age has its own poetry; in every age the circumstances of history choose a nation, a race, a class to take up the torch by creating situations that can be expressed or transcended only through poetry.

Light and funny has a more compelling quality when you're younger. But I haven't abandoned the genre: I love falling down; I love Lucille Ball. It's just that a lot of those stories revolve around problems that I can't convincingly portray at this age.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

Every year before a big competition, I get hurt doing stuff I should not be doing. One year it was my little brother's 12th birthday. We all played hide-and-seek late at night. I climbed up a 30-foot tree, thinking he'd never catch me. I tripped and fell on one of the branches and I hit my head.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

It's funny when people say, 'I don't think Julia likes me.' Honey, if I don't like you, you're going to know about it.

I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

I feel more mature than most people my age.

Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.

A man's as old as he's feeling. A woman as old as she looks.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

What makes us a bit nervous is, in this instant age, to release something that might take more than one listen. Where everything is instantly judged on YouTube or something! It's a bit like releasing a horse and cart on a racetrack.

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!

Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.

I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

I don't want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?