Quotes & Sayings About 40th Birthday Speeches

Isn't there a time or two you can remember when somehow an animal you've hunted has done something to make you let him vanish in the woods? ... Isn't there a bird or covey that somehow always manages to catch you with your gun on safe - even when you know it's there? I think we all know times that for almost certain we gave the hunt to the quarry. — Gene Hill

My first job on the radio was writing jokes for a Baltimore DJ called Johnny Walker, who was sort of a '70s era shock jock who all the teenage boys listened to in my school. — Ira Glass

Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights. — Haruki Murakami

Forgiveness is the healing of the perception of separation. — Helen Schucman

Any racial justice movement, to be successful, must vigorously challenge the public consensus that underlies the prevailing system of control. Nooses, — Michelle Alexander

Hopefully God will allow me to turn my biggest mistake into my greatest success. — Robert Bernhardt

I think no human being can give more than this. Making life possible for the other, if only for a moment. — Martin Buber

The real quality of our life is not determined by what we have won from it, but by what we have discovered within it. — Guy Finley

We live in a box of space and time. Movies are windows in its walls. They allow us to enter other minds, not simply in the sense of identifying with the characters, although that is an important part of it, but by seeing the world as another person sees it. — Roger Ebert

I've become convinced that our lives are shaped less by the mistakes we make than when we make them. There is less elasticity now. Less time to bounce back. And so I heed the urgent whisper and move with greater and greater deliberation. — Dani Shapiro