Precious Daughter Birthday Quotes

#1. The building of such a peace is a bold and solemn purpose. To proclaim it is easy. To serve it will be hard. And to attain it, we must be aware of its full meaning - and ready to pay its full price.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#2. We don't realise how much the world has affected us. We put God in the background.

Henry Blackaby

#3. You can't play anything on a horn that Louis Armstrong hasn't played

Miles Davis

#4. When I was 16, I was taught by a wonderful teacher who let me ignore the Greek syllabus and just read Homer.

Alice Oswald

#5. The typical minimum wage earner is a provider and a breadwinner - most likely a woman - responsible for paying bills, running a household and raising children.

Thomas Perez

#6. I love the freedom of having my own space and my own place and doing things on my terms, and not really having to think about anybody else's schedule.

Danielle Fishel

#7. Jubal longed for the days when a lawyer could cite the Bill of Rights and not have some over-riding Federation trickery defeat him.

Robert A. Heinlein

#8. Your topsoil's a disaster area - it's starved for nitrogen, it's been fertilized for years by the criminally insane, and whatever thief put in your irrigation system ought to be flogged through the fleet.

Peter S. Beagle

#9. Legal plunder has two roots: One, as we have just seen, is in human selfishness; the other is in false philanthropy.

Frederic Bastiat

#10. Arrakis teaches the attitude of the knife - chopping off what's incomplete and saying: 'Now, it's complete because it's ended here.'
- from Collected Sayings of Maud'Dib' by the Princess Irulan

Frank Herbert

#11. Vanity metrics are the numbers you want to publish on TechCrunch to make your competitors feel bad.

Eric Ries

#12. You're a nosy sleuth like me because you can't help it, Alma said.

Ed Lynskey

#13. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.

Abraham Lincoln