Life Milestones Quotes

I'm Italian; I take my time. We're not really fast. We're very slow. I had my first child at 40, my second child at 45, James Bond at 50. I'm so curious as to what's next!

Weddings are important because they celebrate life and possibility.

I think 30 is a big jump from your 20s, but 40 holds no fear for me.

I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.

Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

I have seen too many people in my career think that there is some natural progression to life, with certain career milestones preceding whatever you may want in your personal life. Unfortunately, life doesn't know it is supposed to follow a schedule.

When I plan ahead, I don't just plan what I'm doing tomorrow. I also plan what I'm doing five years from now.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

I've achieved more than some people do in a lifetime, but it doesn't mean I've done it all.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.

When I got this role, my daughter Molly said, 'Dad, you've come full circle.

'After 17' is a song I wrote when my first daughter went to college, so that's kind of where I'm at in that part of my life. If you listen to that song and knew anything about me, you'd say, 'Oh yeah, he wrote that about his daughter,' but I try not to write them that they are so specific that they wouldn't apply to anybody that has a child.

My whole life, as an adult as well, I've been attracted to stories about young people. This period of time is so fertile - there's a million things that are happening, a million firsts, and to be able to witness that and record that is a privilege.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

When I was young, my ambitions were very modest. I thought, 'If only I could play at the battle of the bands at the Y, that would be the culmination of existence!' And then the roller rink, and you work your way up branch by branch.

This record for the first time - feels like a record that really represents my whole entire life and instead of just a period of my life. And it is really kind of eye opening and it makes me feel really good to hear this record and hear all the years.

I remember, when I was 24, I said 34 was going to be the limit I will play to. But as everyone says, the older you get, the longer you want to go on because it gives you so much satisfaction.

I have a wife and two daughters; people who depend on me. Everything is more important than it was when I was 20. But now I'm like, "Eh, I made it this far."

It seems like all of my biggest life events happen when I'm actually at home in Cleveland around my family.

I'm 38, and everyone is making a big deal out of it because I got a few gray hairs cropping in my sides.

I have turned 25, come into my own and focused on improving at day-to-day level.

When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.

I always liken life to a book where you turn the pages one at a time.

I don't think people should do things because you know, 'I am turning this age, I must go have a husband.' If you find somebody and it works out then have kids, it's very nice. But if you don't, you don't.