Quotes on Birthday

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

The defects of the mind, like those of the face, grow worse with age.

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.

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.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

It is through the idealism of youth that man catches sight of truth, and in that idealism he possesses a wealth which he must never exchange for anything else.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

Nature gives you the face you have at twenty; it is up to you to merit the face you have at fifty.

May you live all the days of your life.

grow old with me. the best is yet to be. the last of life for which the first was made.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others' needs, I ached to reestablish myself.

What turned me into an environmentalist, on my eleventh birthday, was seeing the first strip mine.

Sometimes people are beautiful. Not in looks. Not in what they say. Just in what they are.

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.