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Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother.

The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

The problem now is (that) the foods of poor quality are the ones coming in from home from teachers and staff, used for birthday parties and for things like booster sales.

The real sadness of fifty is not that you change so much but that you change so little.

The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.

The reality is sobering: in the United States one in three girls will become pregnant before age 20, totaling more than 750,000 girls per year.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

There are signs that the age of petroleum has passed its zenith. Adjusted for inflation, a barrel of crude oil now sells for three times its long-run average. The large western oil companies, which cartellised the industry for much of the 20th century, are now selling more oil than they find, and are thus in the throes of liquidation.

There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.

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.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.

There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.

There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.

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.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

The trouble with class reunions is that old flames have become even older.

The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.

The secret anniversaries of the heart.

The seven ages of man: spills, drills, thrills, bills, ills, pills and wills.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

The whole business of marshaling ones energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The world is filled with folly and sin, And Love must cling, where it can, I say: For Beauty is easy enough to win; But one isn't loved every day.

The year I was born, 1956, was the peak year for babies being born, and there are more people essentially our age than anybody else. We could crush these new generations if we decided too.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

Thirty, thirty-five, forty, all had come to visit her like admonitory relatives, and all had slipped away without a trace, without a sound, and now, once again, she was waiting.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30; if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

This is what I asked for, and in this day and age that's what actually goes on. But what hurts me the most is that I work just as hard as any other actress around my age, like Scarlett Johansson, but I just don't get the opportunities that they get because people are so distracted by the mess that I created in my life.

This morning a terrible family tragedy has occurred, we are devastated to report that our beloved brother, son, and friend, Sawyer Sweeten, took his own life. He was weeks away from his 20th birthday. At this sensitive time, our family requests privacy and we beg of you to reach out to the ones you love.

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age.

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.