Quotes About Turning 40

#1. My dad had a stroke. It's one of those life-changing events. It was right around the time I was turning 40. We were doing 'L.A. Law,' and I got this call that my dad was in Rome and had had a stroke. I want to stress that it wasn't a huge stroke, but it was enough to provide a serious wake-up call.

Corbin Bernsen

#2. I'm not sad at all about turning 40.

Halle Berry

#3. I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.

Cindy Crawford

#4. It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

Chris Hardwick

#5. I definitely feel more comfortable in my own skin since turning 40.

Kate Moss

#6. I wasn't worried about turning 40 at all.

Helena Christensen

#7. I'm excited about turning 40. I've been an adult for a long time, but there is a difference between being an adult and being a grown-up. I'm someone's mummy now and I'm enjoying that. I feel as if I'm about to hit my peak.

Jill Scott

#8. I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

Harold Lloyd

#9. When I was turning 40, I felt that there were no books out there that hit the spot in terms of what I wanted to read.

Molly Ringwald

#10. I started turning 40 at 38. I had pains all over my body. I couldn't sleep, I had rampant anxiety, and I couldn't stop eating and drinking.

Lorraine Gary

#11. It turns out that the 'Cry It Out' method of baby sleep training, where you ignore that your kid is screaming, crying and turning 40 shades of purple so that she can break herself out of the habit of being spoiled and cuddled to sleep, does more harm - way more - than good.

Denene Millner

#12. Men, accustomed to think of men as possessing sex attributes and other things besides, are accustomed to think of women as having sex, and nothing else.

Mary Corinna Putnam Jacobi

#13. Ooh! Jesus Christ had dreads, so shake 'em.
I ain't got none, but I'm planning on growing some.
Imagine all the Hebrews going dumb ...
Dancing on top of chariots and turning tight ones.

E-40

#14. I see the Internet as the next big deal - I wanted to get in on it early on so I wouldn't get behind it all.

Bruce Campbell

#15. I know exactly where I've come from, I know exactly who my mum and dad are.

Christopher Eccleston

#16. There is no safety where there is no strength; no strength without Union; no Union without justice; no justice where faith and truth are wanting. The right to be free is a truth planted in the hearts of men.

William Lloyd Garrison

#17. There are noble tones, ordinary ones, tranquil harmonies, consoling ones, others which excite by their vigour.

Paul Gauguin

#18. I thought you said you were okay with turning forty.

Michael Thomas Ford

#19. Many years afterwards, we attempt to solve puzzles that were not mysteries at the time and we try to decipher half-obliterated letters from a language that is too old and whose alphabet we don't even know.

Patrick Modiano

#20. We have to believe in free-will. We've got no choice.

Isaac Bashevis Singer