60th Birthday Quotes And Sayings

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“We’re taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that you’re never perfect and that you’re never good enough.”
– Shawn Johnson

“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.”
– Shimon Peres

“What is wrong with the Iranians in addition to the nuclear bomb? This is the only country on Earth in the 21st century that has renewed imperialistic ambitions. They really want to become the hegemon of the Middle East in an age that gave up imperialism.”
– Shimon Peres

“I’ve gotten crankier in my old age.”
– Shirley MacLaine

“Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wonder whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.”
– Soren Kierkegaard

“This is the curse of our age, even the strangest aberrations are no cure for boredom.”
– Stendhal

“In the age of the individual’s liquidation, the question of individuality must be raised anew.”
– Theodor Adorno

“But look, I was born in 1956, the peak year for births in US history. I think I’m very representative of many of the thought processes my generation have been through and, by and large, people of my age have had their imprint planted on the consciousness of western society for a long time.”
– Tom Hanks

“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.”
– Tom Hanks

“From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I’ve liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.”
– Tom Stoppard

“Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.”
– Trey Anastasio

“Age carries all things away, even the mind.”
– Virgil

“Age steals away all things, even the mind.”
– Virgil

“The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.”
– W. H. Auden

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”
– Washington Irving

“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”
– William Butler Yeats

“I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.”
– William J. Clinton

“The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.”
– William Osler

“But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.”
– William Wordsworth

“I’m very accepting with my age. It’s like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you’ve become comfortable in your skin.”
– Zoe Saldana

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