My 40th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

By your 40s, you don't want to be with the cool people; you want to be with your people. — Pamela Druckerman

Something deep in the human psyche has always seemed to yearn for ever more enhanced levels of savagery. — Robert Dunbar

The core of racism is the notion that the individual is meaningless and that membership in the collective - the race - is the source of his identity and value ... The notion of 'diversity' entails exactly the same premises as racism - that one's ideas are determined by one's race and that the source of an individual's identity is his ethnic heritage. — Peter Schwartz

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies. — Carl Clinton Van Doren

Any violation of a woman's body can become sex for men; this is the essential truth of pornography. — Andrea Dworkin

An interesting practice that combines mindfulness and refraining is just to notice your physical movements when you feel uncomfortable. — Pema Chodron

Everything I did growing up was with that as the real goal - doing Broadway; doing theatre. That was always the big thrill for me. — Jennifer Westfeldt

Disney World is celebrating its 40th birthday! You can tell the characters are getting old. In addition to Snow White's seven dwarfs, she now has 25 cats. — Jimmy Fallon

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents. — Adele

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject. — Abdoulaye Wade

Investments - particularly those that involve the change of control of a company - only work when they work well for all parties involved. — Dan Quayle

I would say a magical thing happened on when the big 40th birthday came. I felt like a light kind of just went off, and maybe that's because I felt like at 40 I had the right to say and be who I wanted to be, say what I wanted to say, and accept what I didn't want to accept. — Halle Berry

Be pleased to look forward,
And pleased to look behind,
Count today, your 40th, and each birthday
With a grateful mind. — John Walter Bratton

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time. — Maureen O'Hara

I've died so many times. I'm 65. On my 40th birthday, my girlfriend gave me a reel with ways I had died, whether it was by knife, or electrocution or drowning or being thrown off a building or whatever it might have been. I've died a lot of times! — Jonathan Banks

Just short of my 40th birthday, I told my wife, Beth, I was going to build us a little weekend place in ... well, in the uh, Southern Hemisphere. The deep Southern Hemisphere, actually. New Zealand, maybe. Or Argentina. Possibly Chile. She suggested medication. — Patrick Symmes

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time was the one who took me to the Kabbalah center on my 40th birthday. I was like, "Oh, this is so cool." I was just ready for it. I was ready for something different. — Sandra Bernhard

If you are an actress in L.A., on your 40th birthday they should just hand you the keys to the lunatic asylum. — Romola Garai

Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday. — Jason Sudeikis

Every nation, like every individual, would like to believe it owes 'no apology' to anyone. Adults realise, however, that few among us are purely innocent or utterly blameless. — Stephen Kinzer

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 — John Walter Bratton

Prose and poetry are as different as food and drink. — Franz Grillparzer

I'm not working class anymore,' he said. 'I'm lower-middle. I use three types of oil in my kitchen. Admittedly one of them is WD-40, but that counts, doesn't it? — Christopher Fowler

In Hollywood, there is another name for a woman's 40th birthday party, it's a retirement party. — Artie Lange

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived. — Robert Donat

As it's your 40th birthday
This, we'd like to say
May you be bathed in goodness, happiness and sunshineness
On this, your special day. — John Walter Bratton