Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'

Eleanor Roosevelt

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

Ben Jonson

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

We're glad with the way this is turning out and we hope kids walk away from this with a visual presentation of Christmas and that it's the birth of Christ,

Rodney Atkins

When you're adopted, no matter what, you've got issues with unconditional love. And you find out you're the product of the worst situation for a young girl to be in and start her life, and I'm so grateful that my birth mom made the decision she made. She came from a rough situation.

Maya Angelou

Lift up your eyes upon. This day breaking for you. Give birth again. To the dream.

Suresh Raina

I've always wanted to buy a sports car. After the England series, I went up to my dad and said that I wanted to buy a sports car and got his consent. On his birthday, I surprised him by bringing it home. It's a Porsche Boxter Limited Edition, and my family was thrilled to see it.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

Gene Siskel

For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.

Billy Graham

I think we've taken the meaning of Christmas out. People don't stop and think about Jesus or the birth of Jesus. When they think of Christmas, they think of Santa Claus and - for the children, and they think of giving gifts and out-giving the next person of spending their time looking for the right thing for somebody who has everything.

When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.

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.

Ansel Elgort

I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.

Marianne Williamson

One of the shocks of a 50th birthday is realizing the fundamental fact that your youth is irrevocably over.

Desmond Morris

Life is like a very short visit to a toyshop between birth and death.

Abraham Lincoln

We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

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.

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.

Brad Sherman

Circumcision is obligatory for Jewish-born males - it must be performed on the eighth day after birth and is only postponed in the case of threat to the life or health of the child. Muslim parents also circumcise their male children.

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.

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.

Sathya Baba

When the yearning for living ends, there can be no more birth.