85th Birthday Sayings

#1. My father was one of the fortunate wartime servicemen: he made a full recovery from his injuries, was promoted to captain, survived the war, had a satisfying career as a colonial officer and, eventually, died in February 2002, a month before his 85th birthday.

Michael Ashcroft

#2. What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

Donald Trump

#3. The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

Evelyn Underhill

#4. Type 1 Error: When we settle into wilderness, we are in conflict with so many life forms that we have to destroy them to exist. Keep out of the bush. It is already in good order.

Bill Mollison

#5. It's very important for us to see that science is done by people, not just brains but whole human beings, and sometimes at great cost.

Alan Alda

#6. But when you are looking on anyone as a friend when you do not trust him as you trust yourself, you are making a grave mistake, and have failed to grasp sufficiently the full force of true friendship.

Seneca.

#7. Step into your fear.

Jack Canfield

#8. What could be more important than inspiring a child to read her first book and giving her the gift of confidence?

Kathy L. Patrick

#9. The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.

Charles M. Schulz

#10. The dichotomy between personal liberties and property rights is a false one. Property does not have rights. People have rights.

Potter Stewart

#11. I claim that space is part of our culture. You've heard complaints that nobody knows the names of the astronauts, that nobody gets excited about launches, that nobody cares anymore except people in the industry. I don't believe that for a minute.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#12. I know on which side my bread is buttered.

John Heywood

#13. Most of my relationships were people in the business. Having said that, me and Tim don't really talk that much about work. He comes into my bit of the house every so often to vent but we don't really have very high, cultured conversations.

Helena Bonham Carter

#14. One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'

Douglas Adams

#15. Every single person in jail for a violent crime had a nightmare childhood.

Rob Reiner

#16. The law that will work is merely the summing up in legislative form of the moral judgment that the community has already reached.

Woodrow Wilson