Famous Quotes & Sayings

We found that place of birth was particularly significant, which suggests that an infection in the mother while she is carrying her baby, or in a child's early years, could be a trigger factor for the cancer.

Thomas Fuller

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

O. Henry

This was my birthday present. Winning the game was all I really wanted. It was a cutting fastball a little bit over the plate. It was a huge win after (Friday). We were real flat coming back from (playing) Dixie State. We needed a win to get us on a roll.

Colt Brennan

This was like our birthday. Before the game, we said, 'It starts from today.' We came here with a purpose, and I thought we played with one. We got the job done, and, hey, we're in first place, right?

Everything went just well for me today. It is my birthday so I have double reason to celebrate today. I think I can have two drinks tonight to celebrate the two events.

Victoria Principal

Every year on her birthday, she would pick out a song which she would force me to sing at the top of my lungs with perverted lyrics. And she loved it. I tried to get in touch a few times, but she really wanted to be on her own.

Wayne Coyne

There's something about whatever despair and whatever negativity there is in your life, once you expel it, well, it's like praying, saying whatever's troubling you through your mouth, and hearing it through your ears, participating in your own despair makes it better. So we're not making it for you like a birthday cake, we're making it for ourselves.

The trainer went and did research and found their CDLs had the same issue date and they all had the same birth date.

What's going on here is a redefinition of Christmas as a time of family celebration rather than as a time of the community faithful celebrating the birth of the savior...There is a risk that we will lose one more of our Christian rituals, one that's at the heart of our faith.

The pure Deity is in all places and all corners, and present every where all over: the birth of the holy Trinity in one essence is every where: and the angelical world reacheth to every part, wherever you can think, even in the midst of the earth, stones, and rocks: as also hell and the kingdom of God's wrath is every where all over.

Doris Lessing

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Colin Powell

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

Daniel Craig

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

E. B. White

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

Douglas Horton

Born to be wild - live to outgrow it.

Douglas Coupland

A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.

Douglas Coupland

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

Adele

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.

Adele

I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.

Anita Baker

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Amy Poehler

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.

Ann Brashares

Today is the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.

Ann Coulter

Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster.

Andy Borowitz

Thanks to Facebook, I never forget the birthdays of people I don't really know.

Amy Weber

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.

Aeschylus

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

The day turned out to be October 27, Sylvia's birthday. I had a book coming out about John McCain and I really wasn't thinking of Sylvia then.

Aldous Huxley

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

Walter Cronkite

Well thank you very much, I didn't expect birthday greetings from outer space.

Lily James

I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times.

Alexander McQueen

I always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of 12.

Alexander Pope

Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

Alexander Pope

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind.