Birthday Beginning Quotes

#1. If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.

Jessi Klein

#2. Readiness,' far far from assuring peace, has at all times and in all countries been instrumental in precipitating armed conflicts.

Emma Goldman

#3. Complacency is a continuous struggle that we all have to fight.

Jack Nicklaus

#4. Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

Oprah Winfrey

#5. There are absolutely lots of teachers who are trying to come into the profession, but they are not attracted enough to say, 'I'm going to switch careers to do it,' or they are often not retained ... because the salaries and the compensation aren't there to make it happen.

Melinda Gates

#6. were we ordered to make a temple of wood and stone to the Spirit, inasmuch as such worship is due to God alone, it would be a clear proof of the Spirit's divinity; how much clearer a proof in that we are not to make a temple to him, but to be ourselves that temple.

John Calvin

#7. If you can read the book and say, 'Space Marines, YEEEAAAHHH!' That's Military Science Fiction." (Brigham Young writing lecture, March 2012)

Brandon Sanderson

#8. Never sit staring at a blank page or screen. If you find yourself stuck, write. Write about the scene you're trying to write. Writing about is easier than writing, and chances are, it will give you your way in.

Laini Taylor

#9. We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning it's life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.

Heather Wolf

#10. The good young man went out and I felt the great relief that simple kindness can work. It is a salve of the spirit, surely.

Geraldine Brooks

#11. I'm beginning to think a dictionary would have been a far more advantageous birthday gift for you."
"More advantageous than being eaten alive by a giant, carnivorous bunny? Yes, most things fall in that category, I think.

William Ritter

#12. ADD has turned into a catchall for all childhood misbehavior. When a student's failing in class, or he gets into mischief,

Tess Gerritsen

#13. In stand-up it really helps to play yourself and talk about your own feelings. You cannot fail to be original if you're just talking about what you think about X, Y and Z. Unless you've got a twin brother who's also a stand-up.

Eddie Izzard

#14. When war begins, then hell openeth.

George Herbert

#15. I asked her if she believed in love, and she smiled and said it was her most elaborate method of self-harm.

Benedict Smith

#16. She stole my first kiss, first love and all those first things, which are remembered just because they've never been before

Alice Walsh

#17. O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

William Shakespeare

#18. Here and there, plumes of dark smoke reach into the sky like the fingers of a drowning man reaching up for the last time.

Susan Ee

#19. A genuinely caring heart always find kindness and happiness to share.

Debasish Mridha