84th Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The day you are born is the day you start dying — Soroosh Shahrivar

It's good to know that the people of different countries are really concerned and involved in the movement to help Burma. I think in some ways it's better to have the people of the world on your side than the governments of the world, even if governments can be more effective in certain directions. — Aung San Suu Kyi

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends. — Gore Vidal

That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence. — William Shakespeare

Religion is very easy and whoever overburdens himself in his religion will not be able to continue in that way. So you should not be extremists, but try to be near to perfection and receive the good tidings that you will be rewarded; and gain strength by worshipping in the mornings, the nights. — Muhammad

There are two ways of attaining an important end, force and perseverance; the silent power of the latter grows irresistible with time. — Sophie Swetchine

A fair vision had welcomed him in this land of disease. — J.R.R. Tolkien

I feel like I grew up being babysat by a television, and all I ever wanted to do was be in movies, direct movies, make movies, but it took me a really long time to be honest with myself about it because my background is that my family was very poor. — Noel Wells

In the autumn of 1970 I had a job singing in the school system, playing my guitar in classrooms. — Don McLean

If you have to maintain self-esteem by pulling down the standing of others, you are extraordinarily unfortunate. — Harry Stack Sullivan

If there's - one person on the face of this earth who makes me sick it's the ninny who calls a thing 'improbable' because it happens to be outside his own special, puny experience of life. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

He had a third martini. He looked at me intently and took hold of my arm. 'Look', he said. 'You're a fish in a pond. It's drying up. You have to mutate into an amphibian, but someone keeps hanging on to you and telling you to stay in the pond, everything's going to be all right. — Jack Kerouac