Famous Quotes & Sayings

It happens a lot with English bulldogs, a breed known to have difficulty giving birth. They frequently have to have a Caesarean section.

He goes off and everyone's just laughing. He makes people feel better. It was this 90-year-old's birthday and he got her a cupcake and wished her happy birthday over the loudspeaker.

Mark Prior

Henry had a great day. I'm glad he had a good day, especially after his birthday.

W. S. Gilbert

For months you've referred to me as your hero, But it's easy to be brave when I have you to come home to, and hide behind, and hold on to. I wish you the happiest birthday ever... . Let's eat!

God bless my son...and just have a prayer for him today, cause today's his birthday...he would've been 34 today.

He was a simple guy, a quiet person, always good-natured. On every birthday he would bring me something, like a bouquet of flowers. He sent me something on every holiday. He never forgot me.

He was always the first to learn lyrics to new songs, and he remembered everyone's birthdays and anniversaries. That, plus car license numbers. He knew it all. He would always remind us if an important date was coming up.

I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I fell in love with it and have been flying off and on ever since.

David Horowitz

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

The denominational world tries to pressure its members to focus on the birth of Christ, but in doing so layers of guilt are imposed, and competition gets complicated as one Christmas program tries to outdo the other.

'Coriolanus' deals with the birth of democracy. And that has been fascinating because I've been talking about politics so much because of 'Borgen.' It's a nice bridge.

Bill Buford

The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.

Benjamin Percy

Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.

I used to get a lot of rubber ducks on my birthdays as presents because, you know, I make rubber ducks. But then I get the ugliest ones with a neck, ugly colors, and devil ears. I don't like those.

Cathy Guisewite

I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.

Frank Wolf

We need to change the focus from celebrating sales at the mall to celebrating the significance of President Washington's birth to the birth of our nation.

Meryl Streep

America doesn't reward people of my age, either in day-to-day life or for their performances.

There are sectors of the world awash in money and venture capital, ... But if you are a woman with a minimum-wage job who has been catering birthday parties for supplemental income, the world is not awash in capital for you.

Chris Hadfield

I don't want to be treated like I came from another planet or something or was somehow born with some weird birthright or super power. I don't view myself that way. I am a normal guy, picking up the crap from the dog and scraping the BBQ and having a beer and fixing the shed out back.

Bat for Lashes

I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Blake Anderson

I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.

There is room for 12 at the table, and Bob, Chuck and I have a wonderful time preparing the meal and visiting with the stars. We've had Sam Waterston here, Suzanne Grodner came three times and Elizabeth Franz, who has become a good friend. Elizabeth even came from California to celebrate my birthday on Aug. 21.

Were the court to sustain the decision below, it would set a precedent that would seriously hamper the very measures drug treatment and prenatal care that promote healthy pregnancies and birth outcomes,

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

God created the first man, whom he called Adam. Then God created a woman, whom ho named Eve; and this man and woman were given the power from Jehovah God to reproduce their kind, that is to say, to cause conception and birth of children.

Ezra Taft Benson

We are eternal beings. We lived as intelligent spirits before this mortal life. We are now living part of eternity. Our mortal birth was not the beginning; death, which faces all of us, is not the end.

John Boyega

Finn is just a stormtrooper, and stormtroopers are no longer clones, so they are bred from birth to fight. He's not too sure about it, so he escapes and meets Rey and Poe and BB8, and their stories kind of mesh together, and they go on a major adventure.

Family practice is extremely rewarding, ... You're involved with families from birth through their grandparent years. You become involved with people's lives and understand the trials and tribulations that every family faces.

Andrew Young

If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?

Alice Waters

I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.

Dolly Parton

After momma gave birth to 12 of us kids, we put her up on a pedestal. It was mostly to keep Daddy away from her.

David Satcher

The good news is that we can prevent many deaths from colorectal cancer through screening, ... If you've celebrated your 50th birthday and have never been screened for colorectal cancer, start now.