Eighties Birthday Quotes

#1. People have two deaths: the first at the end of their lives, when they go away, and the second at the end of the memory of their lives, when all who remember them are gone. Then a person quits the world completely.

Raghu Karnad

#2. How bold we are. We shy from a flame that licks the tip of our finger for a fraction of a second, and from which we are allowed the luxury of escape. But most of humankind flaunt their disobedience in the face of an eternal fire that engulfs all, and from which there is no escape. Ever.

Laurence B. Brown

#3. A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island!

Jim George

#4. A single tree can make a hundred thousand matches, and a single match can burn a hundred thousand trees.

Kate Bingham

#5. You don't get taken seriously by asking someone to take you seriously. You've got to show up and own it.

Sophia Amoruso

#6. them back. Sometimes, I hit them first." "Oh,

Kate DiCamillo

#7. If there can be no love without hate, then I love to hate hate.

Wes Fesler

#8. It was the way Nana uttered the word - not so much saying it as spitting it at her - that made Mariam feel the full sting of it.

Khaled Hosseini

#9. I see more pathology in others than I did ten years ago - the older I get, the more insane people seem ...

John Geddes

#10. Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Lionel Hampton

#11. The discussion of fur is childish.

Karl Lagerfeld

#12. Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.

Robert Collier

#13. The enemy is not Islam, the great world faith, but a perversion of Islam.

John Cornyn

#14. The politicians pose some danger because they are interesting and employ popular vanity and the illusion of ideals to make small changes in society. Small does not necessarily mean insignificant, and for this reason the politicians must be watched.

L.E. Modesitt Jr.