Famous Quotes & Sayings

Confucius

At fifteen, my mind was bent on learning. At thirty, I stood firm. At forty, I had no doubts. At fifty, I knew the decrees of Heaven. At sixty, my ear was receptive to truth. At seventy, I could follow my heart's desires without sin.

Debbie Macomber

I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.

Anthony Burgess

Fumbling for a word is everybody's birthright.

George Bernard Shaw

Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination

I suspect the universe is accelerating proportionally with our understanding of the laws of nature and life respectively. It is not much different then the birth of a flower.

I suspect the fraudster obviously had my name, my date of birth and maybe my mother's maiden name. People do not actually think about what they throw into the rubbish.

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

I actually think it's what he represents they don't want to see depicted, because in that square one Nelson signifies the birth of the British empire and 100 years of global dominance, ... Nelson Mandela would signify the peaceful transition to a multiracial and multicultural world, and I would be proud to have that in London.

He just had a birthday party. His grandchildren spoke and his grandson said how much he has impacted him, especially his business sense.

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.

Muriel Spark

I used to think it a pity that her mother rather than she had not thought of birth control.

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.

Today as we celebrate the birth, the life, the dream of Dr. Martin Luther King, it is a time for our nation to remember the injustices that Dr. King fought (against). It is a time to remember his fight for freedom, equality and dignity of all races and all people. He was an incredible man ... he forced our nation to look inside and face our own flaws.

Sathya Baba

Have a sense of pride in your motherland. Just as your mother has given birth to you, so too the land has given birth to you.

Ted Williams

Happy Birthday Tommy. We had one for you. Mickey Mantle.

Happy Birthday, and tell Mom and Dylan and Mark I love them and stuff. Hopefully we'll get to see them again.

Her memory is about two years behind, ... She doesn't remember giving birth to Alania.

He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, and that seemed to be working. ... The only thing he wanted was to see his child. He told Kelly he wanted to say goodbye. Obviously we were not going to do that.

Charles E. Wilson

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Swami Vivekananda

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake.

He loves her and wants to make a nice gesture for her birthday, ... It is certainly a public gesture -- 'I love this woman and I'm not going to give her up.'

Mikhail Saakashvili

Today is the greatest day in the history of Georgia -- this is the day of our dignity, the birth of a new Georgia.

There is no cure for hepatitis B, which is why prevention is critical. Universal vaccination at birth is the most effective way to prevent infection and future consequences of the disease.

The purpose of this report is to reveal the harsh and hidden effects of birth defects worldwide.

Steve Smith

We're privileged to help in the celebration of Tocqueville's 200th birthday. It will be great for Yale students to hear leading Tocqueville experts share their views.

When they (police) first approached me at The Falls, I provided them with my real name, my real address, social security number, birth date, so on and so forth.

Carl Jung

Everything passes. Everything experiences the birth and death cycle.

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

Sathya Baba

Human life is precious, sublime and meaningful. But by involvement in purely worldly pursuits, the greatness of human birth is forgotten.

Cheryl Tiegs

I think because it's not an easy thing, and I think that a lot of women can't get pregnant in their 40s, you know, and I gave birth in my 40s.

Marie Osmond

I think a lot of women do hide it out of shame. It is supposed to be the happiest time in your life after giving birth to a child, you know.

It gets the parents committed so they don't book their child's birthday party on the day we're going to Tree Tops Park.

Lesley Manville

It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand, and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound. When I gave birth to my son, something happened. It is a huge thing for a woman: a whole set of emotions you never had before arrives, and a love you never had before in your life is now on tap.