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You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
Sep 10, 2025
Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future.
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.
By all but the pathologically romantic, it is now recognized that this is not the age of the small man.
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.
I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
And may you happy live, And long us bless.
I feel like a lot of the female relationships I see on TV or in movies are in some way free of the kind of jealousy and anxiety and posturing that has been such a huge part of my female friendships, which I hope lessens a little bit with age.
On your birthday . . . Have a cuppa, kick off your shoes, sit back and relax ? you deserve it! Best Wishes for a Very Relaxing Birthday.
We're sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you'll find some memories With stories you can tell Of how you had a marvelous time And those around you too With fun and lots of laughter And all this just for you.. Have a Very Happy Birthday
You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.
Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.
No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!
You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
May you stay Forever Young
My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
My inspiration was my mom. She's a great cook, and she still cooks, and we still banter back and forth about cooking. Growing up in a mostly Portuguese community, food was important and the family table was extremely important. At a very young age I understood that.
Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
Utility is the great idol of the age, to which all powers must do service and all talents swear allegiance.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
Old age and the passage of time teach all things.
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad example.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
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.
Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages.
The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.
It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.