And send him many years of sunshine days!
The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
Sometimes I nursed starfish alive in jam jars of seawater and watched them grow back lost arms. On this day, this awful birthday of otherness, my rival, somebody else, I flung the starfish against a stone. Let it perish.
When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
If age was temperature, You'd be getting hotter Happy 60th degree You, hot shotter
I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard
Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future.
In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
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 jumped out of an airplane on my 34th birthday because I promised myself I would. I have an interest in confronting my fears.
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 mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more.
There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.
I like working on my birthday, so I always do.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
I was born old and get younger every day. At present I am sixty years young.
I'm not afraid of aging.
I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.