Enlightened Birthday Quotes & Sayings

In winter, you fed the birds; and in summer, do the same thing! In winter, you gave them bread; and in summer, give them water! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Britain has 450,000 listed buildings, 20,000 scheduled ancient monuments, twenty-six World Heritage Sites, 1,624 registered parks and gardens (that is, gardens and parks of historic significance), 600,000 known archaeological sites (and more being found every day; more being lost, too), 3,500 historic cemeteries, 70,000 war memorials, 4,000 sites of special scientific interest, 18,500 medieval churches, and 2,500 museums containing 170 million objects. — Bill Bryson

Not to find out new principles, or new arguments, never before thought of ... but to place before mankind the common sense of the subject, in terms so plain and firm as to command their assent, and to justify ourselves in the independent stand we are compelled to take. — Thomas Jefferson

I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. — Man Ray

Sometimes doing the right thing was hard ... and potentially messy. But a good leader always did the right thing. — Shannon Hale

I loved the Cure and Bauhaus and the Smiths. The people in my town weren't privy to that kind of music and I got abused. I discovered the microphone to get out some of that angst. — Fred Durst

Jess followed, still trying to figure out why two grown people and a smart girl like Leslie wanted to leave a comfortable life in the suburbs for a place like this. They watched the bus roar off. — Katherine Paterson

The end crowns all,
And that old common arbitrator, Time,
Will one day end it. — William Shakespeare

And in that time, I lost my dad and had kids of my own. It was like, OK, I get it now. I know what fatherhood is all about. And you look at your parents differently. — Paul Reiser

But it doesn't say that dude shall not fall in love with dude, because that's just impossible, right? The gays are animals, answering their animal desires. It's impossible for animals to fall in love. And yet- — John Green

It takes more talent to write music, but it takes more courage to write lyrics. — Johnny Mercer

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing
than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance — E. E. Cummings