Birthday Fifty Quotes

#1. When I'd come in one day in the late winter and asked him why he was working the grill with a kid's birthday hat on, he'd said Because today I'm fifty-seven, buddy. Which makes me an official Heinz.

Stephen King

#2. I give myself permission
to enjoy the present moment.

Human Angels

#3. Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.

Menachem Mendel Schneerson

#4. It's annoying to be disapproved of by people who know only half the story, especially when you're not sure which half they know.

Robert Breault

#5. After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now."

Henry Green

#6. I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.

Ogden Nash

#7. Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago, has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

Jerome K. Jerome

#8. Life is about flows not about stuff we have. Water in a tank turns bad. Water that flows gives life. Money in banks turn toxic, it must flow

Gunter Pauli

#9. When you're feeding the second coachload of tourists that day you aren't thinking about the birthday party for fifty next week.

Robin McKinley

#10. Thenardier had just passed his fiftieth birthday; Madame Thenardier was approaching her forties, which is equivalent to fifty in a woman; so that there existed a balance of age between husband and wife.

Victor Hugo

#11. I think I understand why baseball players today are a little standoffish, because the world has changed. You don't know who's trying to take advantage of you, what people really want.

Billy Williams

#12. Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.

Muhammad Ali

#13. Bunter came with me in the role of a friend. A role he has always played to perfection."
"It does not require dissimulation, my lord," said Bunter.
"Thank you," said Peter.

Jill Paton Walsh

#14. Clearly no one knew the socially correct way to deal with a brawl in a ballroom that had been started by a lady.

Amanda Quick

#15. At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning.
At thirty, I stood firm.
At forty, I had no doubts.
At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven.
At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth.
At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

Confucius