Memorial Birthday Quotes

#1. It's pretty popular today to say that everybody should learn to fail and that failure's a good thing. Intellectually, it's an obvious thing. But in fact, it gets conflated with another meaning of failure, so when we grow up as kids, failing in school was a really bad thing.

Edwin Catmull

#2. Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.

Natasha Trethewey

#3. I find vacuuming very therapeutic, but I hate ironing. I usually have no shirt on while ironing, because I'm ironing it, and I end up burning my chest.

Warwick Davis

#4. Did you hear what this idiot just said!? He said it's not about the W ... It's everything about the W with me!

Bernard Hopkins

#5. Their addiction to suffering is nothing but an agreement that is reinforced every day.

Miguel Ruiz

#6. Geological age plays the same part in our views of the duration of the universe as the Earth's orbital radius does in our views of the immensity of space.

John Joly

#7. In a town church the right place for the admission of light.

George Edmund Street