Top 38 Almost Forty Quotes
#1. You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.
Stephanie Morrill
#2. It took me until I was almost forty before I knew what I wanted to be when I grew up.
Anita Diamant
#3. Richard Russell adored his wife. After they had been married for almost forty years, he sent her a note saying, With a sense of love and gratitude that is overpowering, I can only say God bless you, idol of my heart.
Robert A. Caro
#4. At almost forty years old, I assumed my career on camera was over. And I was certainly given that message by all the TV managers and news directors who passed on me when I was trying to get a job back in the business.
Mika Brzezinski
#5. I've fucked more women in my almost forty years than I could count, but I have always preferred men when it comes to sex. I like to fuck and I occasionally like to be fucked.
Candi Kay
#6. Almost forty-five years after my parents first became Americans, I stand before you and them tonight as the proud governor of the state of South Carolina.
Nikki Haley
#7. After all, at almost forty-three-years old, his brother
Trudy J. Smith
#8. He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dung heap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#9. I know you're almost forty, look almost thirty, think you're just over twenty and act as though you're barely ten.
Andrzej Sapkowski
#10. He was a square, pale-faced man of almost forty, and had the appearance of having outlived every emotion to which humanity is subject.
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
#11. I am thrilled to be modelling the debut collection of Always Aliza. Janet Reger was such an iconic brand throughout my modelling career, and it feels great to now be modelling her daughter's range for JD Williams almost forty years on.
Marie Helvin
#12. Great sadness can be off putting, hard to comprehend, especially if it hasn't been your experience. It's amazing for me to know now that AIDS, for instance, is something a lot of people don't "get," whereas it entirely shaped my social life since the time I was twenty until I was almost forty.
Hilton Als
#13. I thanked Nancy for what she had accomplished in her war against illegal drugs, but in my heart, I was really trying to say, "Thank you, Nancy, for everything; thank you for lighting up my life for almost forty years.
Ronald Reagan
#14. There are so many lovely cities around the U.S., around the world, that it's almost impossible to pick one.
Isaac Hanson
#15. Be this thy brazen bulwark, to keep a clear conscience, and never turn pale with guilt.
Horace
#16. From forty years' experience of the wretched guess-work of the newspapers of what is not done in open daylight, and of their falsehood even as to that, I rarely think them worth reading, and almost never worth notice.
Thomas Jefferson
#17. Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make; they are lighter, pull harder per square foot, attain a greater angle of elevation, and have fewer parts.
Lawrence Hargrave
#19. Tilapia have often been represented as the aquatic chicken, and it's perfectly justified.
Daniel Pauly
#20. At fifty you realize that you are no longer a kid. I ignored forty. It was like I was almost at middle age. Maybe it's the baby boomer thing. But undeniably, I am a man. I have to accept [mortality].
John Travolta
#21. Each man is his own absolute lawgiver, the dispenser of glory or gloom to himself; the decreer of his life, his reward, his punishment.
Mabel Collins
#22. Forty-eight years is almost enough time to hold a record,
Larisa Latynina
#24. Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
Henry Ford
#25. Himself almost being torn in half as he was yanked out of the jeep on the end of the cord. In seconds he was forty, fifty yards above the runway, dangling underneath
Anthony Horowitz
#26. I've always known the greatness of black people.
Jasmine Guy
#27. There is nothing which strengthens faith more than the observance of morality.
Joseph Addison
#28. In an almost unthinkable reversal of a global pattern, almost every Arab country today is less free than it was forty years ago. There are few places in the world about which one can say that.
Fareed Zakaria
#29. The police think I'm a rubbernecker. They think I'm a stalker, a nut-case, mentally unstable.
Paula Hawkins
#30. Parents and children cannot be to each other, as husbands with wives and wives with husbands. Nature has separated them by an almost impassable barrier of time; the mind and the heart are in quite a different state at fifteen and forty.
Sara Coleridge
#31. Approaching forty, I had a singular dream in which I almost grasped the meaning and understood the nature of what it is that wastes in wasted time.
Cyril Connolly
#32. As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.
Alan Moore
#33. I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
Gabrielle Union
#35. President Obama has almost doubled our national debt to more than $19 trillion, and growing. And yet, what do we have to show for it? Our roads and bridges are falling apart, our airports are in Third World condition, and forty-three million Americans are on food stamps.
Donald Trump
#36. Most films seem to be about a man and a women falling in love at some point and once you pass forty-five, it's almost disgusting to fall in love.
Kristin Scott Thomas
#37. How immense must be the force of life which turns a baby , who can just distinguish a great blot of blue and purple on a black background, into the child who thirteen years later can feel all that I felt on May 5th 1895 - now almost exactly to a day, forty-four years ago - when my mother died.
Virginia Woolf
#38. After saying the jobs bill is paid for, President Obama now says that it will be paid for by raising taxes over 10 years. I can't figure out if he's the kind of guy who makes infomercials, or the kind of guy who falls for infomercials.
Jay Leno
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