Famous Quotes & Sayings

Neil Jackson

For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton's 'Tears In Heaven,' then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.

We did this to grant Mr. Hawkins his birthday wish for freedom.

Sundar Pichai

If I'm about to forget my kid's birthday, I want the phone to scream at me until I do something about it.

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.

A. N. Wilson

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

Emma McLaughlin

The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'

Kaui Hart Hemmings

For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.

Kay Lenz

On my 30th birthday, all the presents I got were boxes of food. That's what I needed.

John Green

We had a party, a Father's Day party, going-away party and daughter's birthday party all wrapped up in one, ... He was great; the thing of it is he loves kids.

You know what I did? ... I bought every client in the shop a bouquet of flowers. They thought I was crazy. But I said, 'Why? I like you, I love you.' All of a sudden one of them said, 'It's my birthday today. I've gotten two bouquets of flowers!'

Lindsay Wagner

My sister at the time was 13 and so I did the show as a birthday present. The start date of the show was her birthday. Talk about karma.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was like a man who just had six birthdays in one day.

Kevin Youkilis

I remember two years ago a bunch of us went out on the boat and it was my birthday. We had a great time out there. That's the little things you miss. Johnny was a great person. He was the first guy to step in front of the media when things weren't right, when things were right.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.

Alexander Pope

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

Sathya Baba

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.

Rob Lowe

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties.

Kate Smith

Celebrating Differences. You slide your finger down to your chest like your birthday ice cream is drooling down your chin.

Sathya Baba

Celebrate the Birthday in your own village. You need not travel long distances to where I physically am!

We look forward, ... to when Fidel Castro's birthday gives way to the possibility of celebrating democracy in Cuba.

Shakira

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Queen Latifah

I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Anne Lamott

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.

Albert Camus

Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.

Annie Lennox

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.