Quotes on 50th Birthday

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

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

I'm inspired by people who keep on rolling, no matter their age.

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense.

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.

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again.

Even one voice can be heard loudly all over the world in this day and age.

We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest.

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.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

We are always the same age inside.

As the age of television progresses the Reagans will be the rule, not the exception. To be perfect for television is all a President has to be these days.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

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.