60th Birthday Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Are you looking for some 60th birthday quotes? Here is a collation of birthday sayings and verses.

“Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.”
– A. N. Wilson

“Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.”
– Adlai E. Stevenson

“I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.”
– Alexander McQueen

“A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn’t always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I’m interested in now, particularly at my age.”
– Annie Lennox

“Life expectancy in many parts of Africa can be something around the age of thirty five to thirty eight. I mean you’re very fortunate if you live to that age. In fact when I went to Uganda for the first time one of the things that occurred to me was that I saw very few elderly people.”
– Annie Lennox

“A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.”
– Baltasar Gracian

“It’s really amazing that in the age of unbelief, as a smart man called it, there isn’t even more fraud. After all, with no God, there’s no one to ever call you to account, and no accounting at all if you can get away with it.”
– Ben Stein

“In an age of incompetence, I’ve been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That’s my job.”
– Billy Joel

“I was always concerned with writing to my age at a particular moment. That was the way I would keep faith with the audience that supported me as I went along.”
– Bruce Springsteen

“I can’t wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We’d be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can’t wait.”
– Cameron Diaz

“I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I’m naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.”
– Cameron Diaz

“I would love a family. I’m at the age where the wish for a child gets stronger. But who knows.”
– Cameron Diaz

“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.”
– Carl Sandburg

“At the age of 20 I bought a used Fiat 127. This was the only one I could afford!”
– Carlos Ghosn

“If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles – you’re lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you’re brother and sister. That’s what intimacy is, if you’re with your soulmate.”
– Cate Blanchett

“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.”
– Cate Blanchett

“I’ve an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women – my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.”
– Cate Blanchett

“The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.”
– Charles Dickens

“There’s no way to approach anything in an objective way. We’re completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.”
– Charlie Kaufman

“I’ve got volumes on how not to behave. I’ve got more information now than a guy should have at my age.”
– Charlie Sheen

“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.”
– Chris Martin

“Every age develops its own peculiar forms of pathology, which express in exaggerated form its underlying character structure.”
– Christopher Lasch

“No, but way before that, I’ve been doing little dances in movies for years. Yeah, that was an amazing chance. You know, at my age to be able to do a music dance video, very unusual.”
– Christopher Walken

“There probably aren’t a lot of actors my age who tap dance.”
– Christopher Walken

“I think it’s quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I’m Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.”
– Colin Firth

“I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don’t know for sure.”
– Craig Ferguson

“I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what ‘pull my finger’ meant the hard way.”
– Danica McKellar

“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.”
– David Bowie

“Study after study confirms that even when you control for variables like profession, education, hours worked, age, marital status, and children, men still are compensated substantially more – even in professions, like nursing, dominated by women. No wonder there’s a gender gap.”
– Dee Dee Myers

“Genius is present in every age, but the men carrying it within them remain benumbed unless extraordinary events occur to heat up and melt the mass so that it flows forth.”
– Denis Diderot

“When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.”
– Denis Diderot

“Although it is generally known, I think it’s about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.”
– Douglas Horton

“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.”
– E. B. White

“To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone.”
– Earl Warren

“It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.”
– Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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