50th Birthday Quotes – Quotations And Sayings About Age And Aging
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“My best friend just had a baby, and she’s my age. So I’m a godmom now, which is crazy.”
– Kristen Stewart
“I think I’m a bit less inhibited, and not thinking too much before speaking. It’s not about being shameful, I’m just a bit more unabashedly myself because of this thing, and it probably started at age 15. I can be around people and say what I think without fear.”
– Kristen Stewart
“In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of ‘Who do you think you are?’”
– Lady Gaga
“At my age, no one is married, no one has kids, no one has a career.”
– Lena Dunham
“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.”
– Lena Dunham
“I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.”
– Liam Neeson
“My mother enjoyed old age, and because of her I’ve begun to enjoy parts of it too. So far I’ve had it good and am crumbling nicely.”
– Lionel Blue
“A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.”
– Liz Carpenter
“Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress.”
– Lois Wyse
“This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.”
– Lord Byron
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life‘s page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
– Lord Byron
“Believe me, that was a happy age, before the days of architects, before the days of builders.”
– Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“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.”
– Lyndon B. Johnson
“Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero
“Instead of being presented with stereotypes by age, sex, color, class, or religion, children must have the opportunity to learn that within each range, some people are loathsome and some are delightful.”
– Margaret Mead
“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.”
– Maria Sharapova
“In youth we learn; in age we understand.”
– Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
“As technology advances, it reverses the characteristics of every situation again and again. The age of automation is going to be the age of ‘do it yourself.’”
– Marshall McLuhan
“Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.”
– Mary Schmich
“What goes on in Europe concerns us greatly because, if Europe comes apart, the E.U. comes apart, then you’re going to have enormous impact on America, that’s a very big trading partner of ours, and people own securities around the world in this day and age.”
– Michael Bloomberg
“Age imprints more wrinkles in the mind than it does on the face.”
– Michel de Montaigne
“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”
– Michel Foucault
“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.”
– Michelangelo
“A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.”
– Mignon McLaughlin
“A man does not die of love or his liver or even of old age; he dies of being a man.”
– Miguel de Unamuno
“Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.”
– Muhammad Ali
“I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.”
– Noam Chomsky
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