Famous Quotes & Sayings

When you go to Nashville, you know that's the home of country music. New York needed to step up to the plate, to say officially that this is the birthplace of hip-hop. The city was sleeping on it. I discovered that younger visitors who loved rap music were eager for more knowledge, for a different kind of tourist experience that would get them out of Times Square.

Bonnie Langford

The previous weeks she had birthday parties to go to. Important, normal five-year-old stuff that I want to come first in her life.

When the game is on my birthday, it means a little more. We are undefeated and we want to go all the way through the rest of the year that way.

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.

George Meredith

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

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.

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.

This report demonstrates the importance of state birth defects surveillance programs and also the need for more research to identify the causes of many birth defects.

The reason we're doing this now is because I'm booked to play Pasadena the week of my 100th birthday

Clarence Darrow

Whenever I hear of birth control, I always remember that I was the fifth

Mark Twain

Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved

Robert Green Ingersoll

It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

John Sykes

We have been pregnant for seven years and have now given birth

Max Heindel

When a child is born, the exact moment it draws its first breath should be noted, as that moment, and not the time of delivery, is the time of birth from the astrologer's point of view.

William Shakespeare

To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still.

Danica McKellar

I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.

Dag Hammarskjold

If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

Connie Britton

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple ain' - it just can't be done!

Colin Firth

I think it's quite extraordinary that people cast me as if I'm Warren Beatty: until I met my present wife, at the age of 35, you could name two girlfriends.

We go the mall together, have birthday parties together. Because our families live so far away, we have an extended family within the group on and off the stage.

Billy Graham

I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.

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.