Famous Quotes & Sayings

Joy Harjo

Most people don't know that Congo Square was originally a Muscogee ceremonial ground... in New Orleans, the birthplace of jazz.

Missing her first birthday ... I'm not very happy about that, but I'll try to get by.

Brit Marling

I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.

This win was a great birthday present. We had a tremendous effort, especially in the second half. Our guys stepped it up a notch. To hold this Bulls teams to 30 points in a half is unbelievable.

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.

We deal with Internet standards that are open. Why should birth certificates be recorded in a format for which any one company has the key?

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

Paul Simon

Yesterday, it was my birthday I hung one more year on the line I should be depressed My life's a mess But I'm Having A Good Time...

We didn't wait for a holiday or a birthday or anything like that to get together. It was just the thing to do on the weekends, be together.

The fact that PFOA can cross the placenta from the mother to child is very troubling, given the fact that this is a chemical that is broadly toxic and linked to birth defects in lab animals.

Zell Miller

when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.

Ben Jonson

The day For whose returns, and many, all these pray; And so do I.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I shall not grow conservative with age.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The heyday of woman's life is the shady side of fifty.

David Bowie

I'm well past the age where I'm acceptable. You get to a certain age and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines, you're not going to get played on radio and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.

David Barton

What identity thieves are after is a profile, and a profile includes a home address, your birth date and your Social Security number. We have so many employees working out there with false credentials.

Louise Brown's birth marked the end of the beginning of human IVF, acclaimed at the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. This event was snubbed by some clinicians now styled as 'pioneers', who shouted that the test-tube claim was a fake! They did not matter.

Love cures pettiness, hate and grief. Love loosens bonds; it saves man from the torments of birth and death.

Many parents were told by doctors that their children had problems because of something that happened during pregnancy or delivery, or their child had a high fever. If they find out it is genetic or a birth defect, they have this catharsis of guilt they've carried around for so long.

Seventy percent of birth defects could be prevented, treated or ameliorated if the recommendations in this report are adopted.

Serving the True Guru, one finds a lasting peace, the pains of birth and death are removed.

Gary Cole

So I had no concept that there was this whole culture of memos, supervisors, meetings, casual Fridays and lame birthday parties.

Neymar

I'm a happy guy. I like to joke around. I'm irreverent. I love my family; I love my son. I was very happy with and proud of the birth of my son. I grew up a lot after he was born. I'm just an easy and happy guy.

Regina Brett

My daughter finished high school the same month I got my master's degree. I'm glad I didn't know when I gave birth to her at 21 what it would cost in terms of time, money and sacrifice to bring her to that graduation day.

Ranbir Kapoor

I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.

Noah Feldman

Since the birth of modern Orthodox Judaism in 19th-century Germany, a central goal of the movement has been to normalize the observance of traditional Jewish law - to make it possible to follow all 613 biblical commandments assiduously while still participating in the reality of the modern world.

Nikki Reed

I've never really made a big deal out of my birthday.

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.'

What we have seen in the U.S. from 1960 to 2001 is a 62 percent reduction in mortality from birth defects.

Sarah Jessica Parker

I just wasn't one of those girls who dreamt of her wedding day and the birth of her first child.

Nicolas Ghesquiere

I promised myself: Before your 18th birthday, you're going to be at Jean Paul Gaultier. And it worked. I was hired.

Nigel Hamilton

Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.

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.