Birthday Poetry Quotes

#1. I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye ... although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry!

Iain Dowie

#2. Child abuse is one of those issues that's very difficult to talk about because it's surrounded by guilt and shame and so on, but us avoiding that issue doesn't help those kids in need out there who need support.

Chris Hemsworth

#3. I was living in a large apartment with no furniture, just a typewriter, and because I had nothing else to do with my time, it made me take my writing seriously.

Simon Van Booy

#4. The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.

Aberjhani

#5. Even a saint may take pleasure, in retrospect, in having been once desired

Ellis Peters

#6. Lyon is unusual and seems to be exceptionally incompetent at publicising itself. In fact, it doesn't want visitors. It fears discovery.

Bill Buford

#7. I don't think that I want to meet any of the icons. I don't think that anybody can quite live up to your expectations.

Jane Horrocks

#8. I've heard claims that we can wish our way to perfect, permanent wellness, but I haven't seen any proof of that. Sickness and death are part of life. But you can optimize your life. You can make progress as you strive toward perfection.

Brian Carter

#9. I'm not religious, but I am spiritual and I am creating my own practice.

Valerie June

#10. If you take a position under the Constitution that is against the majority view, you have to explain it well enough that maybe you can persuade some of that majority to agree with you.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#11. Recite to yourself some of the traditional attributes of the word 'spiritual': mythic, magical, ethereal, incorporeal, intangible, nonmaterial, disembodied, ideal, platonic. Is that not a definition of the electronic-digital?

Timothy Leary

#12. Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Susan Griffin

#13. The pencil and computer are, if left to their own devices, equally dumb and only as good as the person driving them.

Norman Foster

#14. You can't just wish strength for yourself. Or wisdom. Or resilience. Those things have to be earned.

Katherine Center

#15. I joined the army on my seventeenth birthday, full of the romance of war after having read a lot of World War I British poetry and having seen a lot of post-World War II films. I thought the romantic presentations of war influenced my joining and my presentation of war to my younger siblings.

Walter Dean Myers

#16. Virtual Reality is really a new communication platform. By feeling truly present, you can share unbounded spaces and experiences with the people in your life. Imagine sharing not just moments with your friends online, but entire experiences and adventures.

Mark Zuckerberg

#17. All men are equal in nature, and also in original sin. It is in the merits and demerits of their actions that they differ.

Thomas Aquinas

#18. I used to brag that I can hold up any eviction - even if the landlord had legal rights, I could hold it up for a year.

Ed Lee

#19. My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

Guy Johnson