Quotes & Sayings About Birthdays And Getting Older

What did it matter if he existed for two or for twenty years? Happiness was the fact that he had existed. — Albert Camus

The model of the consumer society is something that will one day end. My personal view is that too much consumption is wrong. — Mikhail Gorbachev

There was never any question about his (Enos Slaughter) courage. He proved it by getting married four times. — Jack Brickhouse

When you say there's too much evil in this world you assume there's good. When you assume there's good, you assume there's such a thing as a moral law on the basis of which to differentiate between good and evil. But if you assume a moral law, you must posit a moral Law Giver, but that's Who you're trying to disprove and not prove. Because if there's no moral Law Giver, there's no moral law. If there's no moral law, there's no good. If there's no good, there's no evil. What is your question? — Ravi Zacharias

I made a seesaw gesture with my hand. — Stephen King

There was someone called Hippasus in Greek times who found out about the diagonal of a square and they drowned him because no one wanted to know about things like that. Like what? Numbers that make you uncomfortable and don't relate to oranges. — Caryl Churchill

The political system is not for the people. The people are secondary to the economy. It's about what generates money, not about what benefits the people. — Ziggy Marley

There was no planning for insanity. With enough revolutions and elections, enough transfers of power, eventually a madman would take the reins. — Hugh Howey

Therefore, to teach them [women] at least an outline of economics and law is the first requirement after giving them a general education. Figuratively speaking, it will be like providing the women of civilized society with a pocket dagger for self-protection. — Fukuzawa Yukichi

I just feel like it gets harder and harder every year with Ace getting older and time away from my husband and even family events such as birthdays and friends' weddings and things that I've always just missed out on because of softball. — Jennie Finch

I just love doing costume dramas; I am very lucky, as I see myself as a part-time time traveller. — Julia Sawalha

I really wanted to be an opera soprano. — Maureen O'Hara

What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it. — Yoweri Museveni

Guns are part of the Constitution, and no one is willing to have that tough conversation with Congress and the Senate and the president to say maybe that's got to change. People talk about it - but I mean actual change. — George Stroumboulopoulos