Fifty Five Birthday Quotes

#1. I was at the end of my tether when my first book was published. For eight years I didn't make a penny, I worked so hard, didn't drink, didn't enjoy life.

Orhan Pamuk

#2. One of the things I would have loved to have had was a family that worked better together, although I love my mother and father to bits.

Andy Murray

#3. How much straight forward you are; that much bliss of the Self (Samadhi) will prevail within you.

Dada Bhagwan

#4. Novelists seem to fall into two distinct categories - those that plan and those that just see where it takes them. I am very much the former category.

Jojo Moyes

#5. It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

Ryan Lochte

#6. I was always pretty good at school, but a lot of it was memorising, maybe cheating off your mates, stuff that gets you through.

Frank Lampard

#7. In Egypt, every family is suffering from the deteriorated schooling and university system of the Mubarak regime. What families want most of all is to secure a good education for their children.

Ahmed Zewail

#8. If I saw the gates of hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I would not despair; I would not lose hope of mercy, because I would trust in you, my God.

Gemma Galgani

#9. Everything you try to do in life, of any value, people are going to be saying, 'No, no, no.' You have to have the ability to not see that or hear that.

Amy Heckerling

#10. And thank you for not putting it in your book.
And fuck you for not putting it in your book.

Lynn Coady

#11. Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

Karen Kain

#12. We must have this rule, for there are those whose hearts are so hard that they will come and buy this rice that is given for the poor--for a penny will not feed any man like this--and they will carry the rice home to feed to their pigs for slop. And the rice is for men and not for pigs" (Buck, 105).

Pearl S. Buck

#13. A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within ... for the traitor appears not to be a traitor ... he rots the soul of a nation ... he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#14. Was it better to get as much out of a moment as possible, knowing it could slip out from under you in a second? Did the actual experience outweigh the inevitable conclusion? I guess I had to decide if the conclusion was a broken heart, or a broken bone, in order to weigh the risk.

Rebecca Donovan

#15. You're the empire I'd protect. You're my reason for serving. I want you above all else. You're my freedom.

Sarah Noffke