Hot Air Balloon Birthday Quotes & Sayings

I guess if you go around with famous people you are assured of some reflected (or deflected) glory. — Ambeth R. Ocampo

When I was around 9 years old, I was watching TV one day. I was looking at this commercial, with a kid in the bathtub playing with a rubber ducky or something, and I said, 'Where do those kids come from? How come they get to be on TV? I could do that stuff.' — Kristy Swanson

British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray! — Jimmy Carr

Glennard did himself injustice. it was from the unexpected discovery of his own pettiness that he chiefly suffered. Our self-esteem is apt to be based on the hypothetical great act we have never had occasion to perform; and even the most self-scrutinizing modesty credits itself negatively with a high standard of conduct. Glennard had never thought himself a hero; but he had been certain that he was incapable of baseness. We all like our wrong-doings to have a becoming cut, to be made to order, as it were; and Glennard found himself suddenly thrust into a garb of dishonor surely meant for a meaner figure. — Edith Wharton

When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day. — Bill Gates

All of my own impulses to balance and move seemed to conflict with those of the guards, and I was jerked and jostled down the portico, just as graceful as a sick cat. — Megan Whalen Turner

The writer Anne Lamott says, "You can safely assume you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."28 — Parker J. Palmer

Every man is under the natural duty of contributing to the necessities of the society; and this is all the laws should enforce on him. — Thomas Jefferson

We cannot protect people from the lessons we ourselves have learned. — Kij Johnson

Biography of the great American Benjamin Franklin. — Robin S. Sharma

Tony poured wine into each glass and handed one to Claire. "Do you remember when we had wine at the Red Wing?"
Claire closed her eyes, recalling the scene from a lifetime ago, and nodded. "I do."
"I'd been watching you for years. I was so nervous that night. I thought I was planning your acquisition." He looked into his red liquid.
Her stance straightened, "If you're using business metaphors, may I suggest hostile takeover. It's more appropriate. — Aleatha Romig

If you go on touching me, I'll catch fire before your eyes. — Olga Goa

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species ... — John Stuart Mill

Glancing at the shadows, "Come in," I beseech. "Let me see, let me touch you. Talk to me ... And let me tell you my story. — Uvi Poznansky