Wise Birthday Quotes & Sayings

To this day, being able to "take advantage" of someone is the measure in my mind of having a parent. For me and Lindsay, the fear of imposing stalked our minds, infecting even the food we ate. We recognized instinctively that many of the people we depended on weren't supposed to play that role in our lives, so much so that it was one of the first things Lindsay thought of when she learned of Papaw's death. We were conditioned to feel that we couldn't really depend on people - that, even as children, asking someone for a meal or for help with a broken-down automobile was a luxury that we shouldn't indulge in too much lest we fully tap the reservoir of goodwill serving as a safety valve in our lives. — J.D. Vance

That very afternoon they had seemed full of brilliant qualities; now she saw that they were merely dull in a loud way. — Edith Wharton

I celebrate life with holy thanks. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The paradox of life; everyone desire a fuller life. But no one wishes to increase in age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released. — Mick Taylor

Man is the only predator who hunts his own. — Kenneth Eade

Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it. — Kailash Kher

I'll tell her about Tia. I'll tell her how beautiful she was and how brave. And I'll tell her the most important thing of all: that her mother loved her better than her life. — Glenda Millard

My family is large and in charge! That's my favorite way to describe them. — Britt Robertson

Birthday is a sacred-life celebration. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Nikhilananda's birthday. Maybe we'd Morris dance, naked, around the base of an old-growth California redwood, its branches lavishly festooned with the soiled hammocks and poop buckets of crunchy-granola tree sitters mentoring spotted owls in passive-resistance protest techniques. You get the picture. In place of Santa Claus, my mom and dad said Maya Angelou kept tabs on whether little children were naughty or nice. Dr. Angelou, they warned me, did her accounting on a long hemp scroll of names, and if I failed to turn my compost I'd be sent to bed with no algae. Me, I just wanted to know that someone wise and carbon neutral - Dr. Maya or Shirley Chisholm or Sean Penn - was paying attention. But none of that was really Christmas. And none of that Earth First! baloney helps out once you're dead and you discover that the snake-handling, — Chuck Palahniuk

My goal in any show is to make people laugh. That's the No. 1 thing. Everything else pales in comparison to that. — Jeff Dunham