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Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with yesterday's tools and yesterday's concepts.
I jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
Remember how excited you were when you turned five years old. Today, you should be 10 times that excited. Happy 50th birthday!
We don't know Religion's death date but we know its birthday: The very night man experienced his first great fear of anything!
If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!
I once choked on a chip at a friend's birthday when I was seven and had to be sent home, as I'd broken my collarbone coughing.
In the television age, the key distinction is between the candidate who can speak poetry and the one who can only speak prose.
After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
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.
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
Yes, you're very very old But try to think of it as not being cursed After all, in a hostage situation You'd be released first!
I remember, after getting my very first CD player for a birthday, I immediately purchased the soundtrack to the movie 'Grease.'
A birthday is a good time to begin a new; throwing away the old habits, as you would old clothes, and never putting them again.
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
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.
When I was six years old, Mom and Dad gave me a guitar for my birthday, and Daddy taught me the chords to 'You Are My Sunshine.'
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
Reaching F1 was always the ultimate goal, I suppose, ever since driving a go-kart my father had bought me for my fifth birthday.
The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.
Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?
I miss my mom and dad. They brought me into this world and I wish they were with me on my birthday. So I don't celebrate it much.
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it.
Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.
It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.
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.
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and definite hardening of the paragraphs.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
I was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.
After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents!
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
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.
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.
At 50, you probably get muddled? I'm the same, that's how I know? If you ever get lost, don't worry? Just change where you want to go
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.
Our daughters are the most precious of our treasures, the dearest possessions of our homes and the objects of our most watchful love.
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.
As it's your 40th birthday This, we'd like to say May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness On this, your special day.
Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were.
I hate my birthday. I don't like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better.
Congratulations on turning 60 Now you can wear what you like No one cares, and more particularly You're fine telling 'em 'Take a hike'
n this changing world, it's nice to know that one thing is forever... you'll always be my sister! Happy Birthday to a Wonderful Sister
I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.