Humbling Birthday Quotes & Sayings

The flaw in our character is our insistence on separating blue-collar jobs from white-collar jobs, and encouraging one form of education over another. — Mike Rowe

Life is a transient phenomenon with eternal reflection. — Debasish Mridha

I don't know a thing about jazz."
"That's okay." He pulled me toward the door and opened it. "You know music. Jazz will explain itself. — Jessica Martinez

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb. — Orrin Woodward

With 'Verdict' I was away for six months, touring, with a week in each town. I did not really enjoy that aspect of it. — Matthew Lewis

You must learn to sit with the restless, painful energy and not let the momentum pull you under and cause you to do the same thing over and over that's ruining your life and the lives of those around you. — Pema Chodron

Some girls had mothers who never called them beautiful but swore their love up and down. It's all the same, really. All bullshit. — Leah Raeder

War is always a contest of words as well as of wounds. — Samuel Moyn

His eyebrows drew together. He was perilously close to unibrow; I guess nobody had held him down and administered a good plucking to the caterpillar climbing across his forehead. — Lilith Saintcrow

I hope you never understand, because I like you. I like you, I like you. — Sarah Kane

The clerisy are those who seek, and find, delight and enlargement of life in books. The clerisy are those for whom reading is a personal art. — Robertson Davies

I envied the men. I envied the irresponsibility their surroundings and genitals allowed. I envied the artificial affection they bought. But most of all, I envied that flicker of euphoria they got to feel, like a quick sip of whiskey that warmed their chest and eased their pain. — Maggie Young