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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

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

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.

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.

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.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

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.

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.

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.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

Time and tide wait for no man.

Time draweth wrinkles in a fair face, but addeth fresh colors to a fast friend.

Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.

Today more than ever we need creative minds to address the issues of the age. And one of the most urgent is this: How can humanity know so much, achieve so much, and still fail so many people so badly?

Time, where did you go? / Why did you leave me here alone? / Wait, don't go so fast / I'm missing the moments as they pass

To be happy, we must be true to nature and carry our age along with us.

To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters, Earth and Sun. But we, unlike trees, need grow no annual rings.

Time marches on and sooner or later you realize it is marching across your face.

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday!

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.

To my surprise, my 70s are nicer than my 60s and my 60s than my 50s, and I wouldn't wish my teens and 20s on my enemies.

To me age is a number, just a number. Who cares?

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

True Friends are the bacon bits In the salad bowl of life. How true I read that and straight away, My thoughts turned to you And especially today on your 60th These special wishes I send Have a really wonderful birthday My special "bacon flavored" friend

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.