happy birthday greetings quotes

"Imagine," Tyler said, "stalking elk past department store windows and stinking racks of beautiful rotting dresses and tuxedos on hangers; you'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life, and you'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Tower. Jack and the beanstalk, you'll climb up through the dripping forest canopy and the air will be so clean you'll see tiny figures pounding corn and laying strips of venison to dry in the empty car pool lane of an abandoned superhighway stretching eight-lanes-wide and August-hot for a thousand miles." ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 16



What is patriotism but the love of the food one ate as a child? ~Lin Yutang



I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me. ~Abraham Lincoln



Life: It is about the gift not the package it comes in. ~Dennis P. Costea, Jr.



A good pun is its own reword. ~Author Unknown



Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find. ~Seneca



My mother said it was simple to keep a man, you must be a maid in the living room, a cook in the kitchen and a whore in the bedroom. I said I'd hire the other two and take care of the bedroom bit. ~Jerry Hall



On CBS Radio the news of Ed Murrow's death, reportedly from lung cancer, was followed by a cigarette commercial. ~Alexander Kendrick



History is herstory too. ~Author Unknown



Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him. ~Lord Chesterfield



The human race is governed by its imagination. ~Napoleon



The secret of dealing successfully with a child is not to be its parent. ~Mell Lazarus



Do not... regard the critics as questionable patriots. What were Washington and Jefferson and Adams but profound critics of the colonial status quo? ~Adlai Stevenson



We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ~Thornton Wilder



The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James



Fate tried to conceal him by naming him Smith. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



All photos are accurate. None of them is the truth. ~Richard Avedon



I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and it isn't of much value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them. ~Boris Pasternak



One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul and yet no one ever come to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on the way. ~Vincent Van Gogh



The faith that stands on authority is not faith. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson