Aging Birthdays Quotes & Sayings

Power of a stallion, and the innocence of a foal... — Holly Bodger

Europe will not accept genetically modified foods. It doesn't make any difference in the final analysis what Brussels does, what Washington does, or what the World Trade Organization does. — Jeremy Rifkin

A decisive cleansing of the conscience is a prerequisite for unhindered access to God — Michael L. Brown

I think the way kids create is so inspiring. They're drawing a picture? They love the picture they drew; they're not tortured about it. — Spike Jonze

Sure, she was going to turn eighteen in less than a year. She'd been in the system long enough to know that eighteenth birthdays weren't marked by celebrations. When the checks stopped coming, she'd be on her own. "Aging out" of foster care meant becoming homeless. She'd heard stories of kids ending up in jail and hospital emergency rooms, selling drugs, living on welfare and food stamps. How desperate did a person have to become before they broke the law to survive? For now, things were good, and she didn't want to mess that up. — Ellen Marie Wiseman

I didn't do great in school. I didn't have many options. I mean, I'd like to have gone to art college, but I didn't have the grades. I didn't have any qualifications. But I had some friends who were hairdressers, so I just thought, Well, I'll have a go at it. — Guido Palau

No one can know sincere happiness, Sophie, without first having known sorrow. One can never appreciate the enormity and rareness of such a fiery bliss without seeing misery, however unfair that may be. — Fisher Amelie

And the passiveness, you know, the apathy, well, that's not responsible citizenship. When I'm asked, why am I an activist, I say, well that's the rent that I pay for living on this planet, okay? — Ray McGovern

Nothing's worse than a story without an end. — Samantha Shannon

This is making me crazy. I hate relying on other people to save me, I hate being clingy, I hate it, and every time you show up, I lean on you. - Matilda Scarlet Veronica Betty Vilma Goodnight — Jennifer Crusie

Every great narrative is at least two narratives, if not more - the thing that is on the surface and then the things underneath which are invisible. — Ali Smith

Good magic opens the mysteries to all; bad magic seeks simply to mystify. — Theodore Roszak

Be conten with who you are and wish not change nor dread your last day nor look on to it. — Kevin Brooks

Life is full of challenges, seen and unseen, so to look and feel great, you must hold your head up each day and project your inner confidence. — Cindy Ann Peterson

If we don't accept any common beliefs, we can't exist in spacetime. But when we don't believe in age, at least we don't have to die because our numbers change. [ ... ] When you don't believe in birthdays, the idea of aging turns a little foreign to you. You don't fall into trauma over your sixteenth birthday or your thirtieth or the big Five-Oh or the deadly Century. You measure your life by what you learn, not by counting how many calendars you've seen. If you're going to have trauma, better it be the shock of discovering the fundamental principle of the universe that some date predictable as next July. — Richard Bach

Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in. — Lynsay Sands