Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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.

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.

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.

Charles Kingsley

Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.

Alanis Morissette

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture, with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Alanis Morissette

I was taught from a young age that I had to serve, so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

Blair Underwood

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

Billie Jean King

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Billie Jean King

Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday

Art Buchwald

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Bertrand Russell

The commonest objection to birth control is that it is against nature.

Bertrand Russell

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

Bertrand Russell

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Carl Sandburg

I am! I have come through! I belong!

Carl Sandburg

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

Cameron Diaz

I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.

Cameron Diaz

I can't wait to be that age and hanging out with a bunch of people hanging out all day playing golf and going to the beach, all my own age. We'd be laughing and having a good time and getting loopy on our prescription drugs. Driving golf carts around. I can't wait.

C. S. Lewis

Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.

Mike Wallace

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

Celine Dion

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history.

Andy Cole

My little boy said to me it would be nice if I got a hat-trick to celebrate my birthday, so I dedicate my two goals to him.

Robert Webb

My first proper kiss was from Cara Shucksmith when I was 13 or 14 at her birthday party.

Oscar Wilde

One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell anything.