In “The Good Shepherd” there was a nice quote from Ovid’s Metamorphoses.  I managed to track it down at imdb: 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343737/faq

While dining with the German translator, Matt Damon (Wilson) quotes from Ovid’s Metamorphoses – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(poem). He paraphrases from Book 14, lines 131-153 (http://www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Metamorph14.htm):

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.

I dug up the original here:

http://www.tkline.freeserve.co.uk/Metamorph14.htm#_Toc64108194

Pointing to a pile of dust, that had collected, I foolishly begged to have as many anniversaries of my birth, as were represented by the dust. But I forgot to ask that the years should be accompanied by youth.