Happy Birthday Topper Quotes

#1. Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of.

Henry David Thoreau

#2. I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

Jon McGregor

#3. When I was a teenager, I was a voracious reader of crime fiction, but only contemporary books.

Michael Connelly

#4. I look for a director with a script he likes a lot, but I'm probably after the directors more than anything.

Jack Nicholson

#5. I still see myself as a bit of a cottage industry. Being in a room creating stuff and seeing if anyone wants it, as opposed to going to work for someone.

Ricky Gervais

#6. Same species, same earth, different stories. Like Creation stories everywhere, cosmologies are a source of identity and orientation to the world. They tell us who we are. We are inevitably shaped by them no matter how distant they may be from our consciousness.

Robin Wall Kimmerer

#7. He who laughs worst, weeps first

Paul Haddad

#8. here's the crowning, the glory, the head, purple and smeared with yoghurt, another push and it slithers out, slick with fluid and blood, into our waiting. Oh

Margaret Atwood

#9. I broke off from my hummed rendition of "U Can't Touch This.""I'm a seraph," I reminded her happily."I'm supposed to sing constant praises."
"Not about yourself!"
"Doo be do do- demons can't touch this!" I sang again.

Helen Keeble

#10. England, bound in with the triumphant sea,
Whose rocky shore beats back the envious siege
Of watery Neptune.

William Shakespeare

#11. I've known this for a
while, but you can know something for years without it really hitting you. Now it's
hitting me.

David Levithan

#12. Morality and its victim, the mother - what a terrible picture! Is there indeed anything more terrible, more criminal, than our glorified sacred function of motherhood?

Emma Goldman

#13. I talk to the friends in my head on paper.

Lisa M. Cronkhite