Centennial Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I was just twenty-one and my name was known wherever men sharpened swords. I was a warrior. A sword warrior, and I was proud of it. — Bernard Cornwell

I tell you, to be honest, every single one of us, without any exaggeration, every single one of us was 100 percent sure that we would all be ... all be martyred, but you know, Allah chooses to take a person's life when he chooses. And we have no control over. — John Walker Lindh

Perhaps she'd done so to spite him, he thought. He'd tried to kill her, after all. And a worse attempt I've never seen. Disgraceful! His jaw locked in irritation. Now is not the time to think of her. When is a good time? Later. He could almost hear Death clapping happily in his mind, and he didn't think it was because the demon was eager to take Anya's soul. He didn't understand why the demon cared to see her, but he had no time to reason it out. The — Gena Showalter

You have made the moon," The Jester said. "That is the moon. — James Thurber

I smiled, knowing that Elizabeth, even in the worst of her humours, was far better suited to my own disposition. She would scold me, quarrel with me, torment me, tease me and laugh at me as often as may be.
I was the happiest man in the world. — Mary Street

Death, he felt, was only a kind of warning rather than a desperate and permanent end. — Laszlo Krasznahorkai

If you're not adapting to the very rapidly changing environment, if you can't think creatively, you lose big in this society because there are very few jobs for you left. — Robert Sternberg

In his dark suit, white shirt, and rep tie, he looked - and sounded - utterly professional. There was little chance he would make a mistake on direct or get tripped up on cross by a pettifogger, such as my own wily self. — Paul Levine

If kids really made all the parents better, there wouldn't be crazy kids in the world. — Vincent Cassel

Thus Betty scraped through a second bitter crisis, one that might have shattered a character more brittle. But she had grown sharp as bile from this, her latest shock, and each passing day increased her edge. Worse, there was no one now to notice her shrinking humanity and cry halt ... by turns she would become lightheaded, cackling away like one insane. It was the lightness of one who has nothing more to lose. — Eddie Lenihan

It is also needless to add that without iced champagne and Roman punch a dinner is not called a dinner. — Charlotte Campbell Bury

Destiny bears us to our lot, and destiny is perhaps our own will. — Benjamin Disraeli

No one has to know. No one would. It would be her secret, one she would share with the mountains only. The question is whether it is a secret she can live with, and Parwana thinks she knows the answer. She has lived with secrets all her life. — Khaled Hosseini

Shoeshine looked disappointed. "Don't do that, young fella." "Do what?" "Try and label everyone you meet." The man coughed again. "It's lazy. — Matt De La Pena

I am convinced that creativity is a priori to the integrity of the universe and that life is regenerative and conformity meaningless. — R. Buckminster Fuller