Quotes About Turning 50

#1. Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Flea

#2. Turning 50 can be difficult, sometimes dangerous, for women. The danger is in that blip that can come from the fact that you become invisible, and if you're not careful and don't embrace that, it can trip you up and you lose confidence.

Dawn French

#3. Now that rock is turning 50, it's become classical itself. It's interesting to see that development.

Bjork

#4. There's nothing stressful about turning 50 except people reminding you about it.

Muhammad Ali

#5. Turning 50 changed me and I'm far more accepting of myself. I'm not thin, but I am a size 10. I go in at the middle and very much out at the bottom and top. And now I think, 'Well, that's how I am.'

Carol Vorderman

#6. I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50.

Marcia Gay Harden

#7. I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.

Victoria Principal

#8. When I turned 50, I said to myself, well, if this is what it's like turning 50, I can't wait to turn 60 because I still felt very, very mentally and physically good, outside my back surgery.

Greg Norman

#9. Turning 50 gives me more yesterdays than tomorrows.

William J. Clinton

#10. My career was about to change radically, in turning 50 I had hit the age where my Dad made a big career and his life started to unravel.

Kenny Loggins

#11. I'm sure there's a subconscious 'go for it' thing with turning 50. You want to do as much as possible and there are thoughts of how little time we have on the planet. For a lot of musicians in their 50s, the best days are behind them. I'd like to try and show that there is a future.

Paul Weller

#12. Surround yourself with Love and Love will surround you.

Maria Green

#13. The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.

Wang Jianlin

#14. I made my money turning around distressed or bankrupt companies. I did 50-some of them in my career ... I started on a shoestring and eventually built up quite a fortune.

Michael Heisley

#15. The complexities of life can never be untangled by man; like a sheep without a shepherd we have been self-programmed for destruction. Jesus Christ is the only way. Genesis 3:6 and John 14:6.

Felix Wantang

#16. You could buy my book in a paperback edition for a dollar, and in hard covers for $3.50. And for fifty cents extra, I come around to your house personally and wet your finger while you're turning the pages.

Bob Hope

#17. I don't know that there are real ghosts and goblins, But there are always more trick-or-treaters than neighborhood kids.

Robert Breault

#18. Thus God himself was too kind to remain idle and began to play the game of signatures signing his likeness unto the world: therefore I chance to think that all nature and the graceful sky are symbolized in the art of Geometria.

Johannes Kepler

#19. Most Men are Cowards, all Men should be Knaves.
The Difference lies, as far as I can see,
Not in the thing it self, but the Degree.

John Wilmot

#20. One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#21. Only a few things are really important.

Marie Dressler

#22. Gravity may put the planets into motion, but without the divine Power, it could never put them into such a circulating motion as they have about the Sun; and therefore, for this as well as other reasons, I am compelled to ascribe the frame of this System to an intelligent Agent.

Isaac Newton

#23. I do think that the elections of 2010 and 2012 are going to determine the trajectory of the country. Either we're going to be aspiring and improving opportunities based on freedom and responsibility, or we're going to go down the path that dictates and mandates a dependency on government.

George Allen

#24. Love is not an experience. Love is what you are.

John De Ruiter