Wishful Birthday Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes I scare myself at how easily I slip inside my mind and live vicariously through these characters. — Teresa Mummert

If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being is always ahead. Such a creature is probably immortal. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I don't pick and choose subjects or settings; they pick and choose me. — Vikram Seth

It is not as if I want to be a princess. Since I was four years old I've spent every birthday, shooting star, wishbone, and lost eyelash wishing I did not have to be a princess! — Mili Fay

Adoption is rewarding. But the process, as we have already detailed in some particulars, can be expensive, exhausting, and hard to sustain on a dream, much less a whim. — Scott Simon

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land. — Sitting Bull

It is not eminent talent that is required to ensure success in any pursuit, so much as purpose-not merely the power to achieve, but the will to labour energetically and perseveringly. Hence energy of will may be defined to be the very central power of character in a man-in a word, it is the Man himself. — Samuel Smiles

Laypeople. They think everything in the past happened at the same time. — Christopher L. Bennett

It was only wishful thinking. And whether wishes were made by blowing out birthday candles or on a shooting star, they never came true. — Jessica Sorensen

I think I've got some more big plays left in me. — Victor Cruz

True faith, real and pure faith, cannot be practiced in moderation. — Steve Arterburn

It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions. — Michael Bassey Johnson

Selah Moments: those times we lean into God's presence, hear His voice, and willingly receive the golden nuggets of truth-revelation He gifts us with. — Jo Ann Fore

whatever dat gal want to show you, going to be wid you til de doctor clear you! — Theresa L. Henry

The money you attract is the exact measure of value of the ideas you have succeeded in externalizing. — Elizabeth Towne

No, it's very comforting actually, to know that you're sitting in a long legacy of actresses who've played the role. I'm absolutely all for absorbing all of those influences, so you understand the pedigree of the part as much as you understand the figure in history ... because you are playing the part. You don't say: "Gosh, I want to play Peter Sellers ... " because you can sort of do that in your own bathroom. — Cate Blanchett

I've made a wonderful living playing that theatrical character - the professional brassy dame. — Ethel Merman