Quotes About Surprise Parties

#1. But God always has a holy surprise up His sovereign sleeve. And when we pray, God throws surprise parties!

Mark Batterson

#2. Surprise parties are strange 'cause people jump up and they yell the word, 'surprise' at the party. I came home and you emerged from my furniture. You don't have to tell me how to feel. I don't need a hint.

Demetri Martin

#3. But after I'd survived for so long on the scraps from my own emotional table, you spoiled me with a daily banquet of complicitous what-an-asshole looks at parties, surprise bouquets for no occasion, and fridge-magnet notes that always signed off XXXX, Franklin.

Lionel Shriver

#4. As you get older, the assumption is you get wiser. I try to earn it by not staying still, not resting on laurels. A lot of people in other professions are retired at my age. I care about music more than ever.

Lorin Maazel

#5. Truly life is wasted on the living ...

Neil Gaiman

#6. My kids think you are always supposed to be in a small group and lead one.

Andy Stanley

#7. I love to be scared. Not, 'Hey, I think I smell smoke ... ' scared, but creepy, paranoid, what's-that-out-there-in-the-dark, ghost story scared. It's no surprise that I was the girl who got invited to the slumber parties because I could be counted on to tell a tale to scare the bejesus out of you.

Libba Bray

#8. Cousin Jimmy says that a man in Priest Pond says the end of the world is coming soon. I hope it won't come till I've seen everything in it.

L.M. Montgomery

#9. I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

Herman Melville

#10. Thanks are due in three quarters. To the Public, for the indulgent ear it has inclined to a plain tale with

Charlotte Bronte

#11. The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.

Michael Mandelbaum

#12. Christmas may not bring a single thing; still, it gives me a song to sing.

Charles Dickens

#13. It's important for us to become aware of the fact that we are needful, for with that awareness also comes the sensing that we couldn't be needful if there weren't something to fulfill the need.

Guy Finley

#14. I used to help my dad with a stall selling eggs when I was about 12. People were so hard up they would ask for one egg. But mostly no one came by at all. It was very demoralising.

Lynne Truss

#15. Slowing it all down and analyzing our mental approach is a surprisingly effective way of becoming a better player.

Jim Abbott