Respectful Birthday Quotes

#1. I had a long history of calamitous mishaps.

Janet Evanovich

#2. I have a huge need for financial security; the emigrant in me has a fear of ending up homeless and in the gutter.

Ruth Behar

#3. I'm not a pet, and I don't need anybody's seed.

Jamie Le Fay

#4. A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.

S.A. Tawks

#5. Memory and imagination are only a knife edge apart, and I wonder if I'm making it all up: slipping false memories in among the real ones, just to have something to hold onto. Fools gold.

Abigail Haas

#6. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but my own.

Noel Coward

#7. It is not my deeds that I write down, it is myself, my essence.

Michel De Montaigne

#8. From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. Historically, it is important to try to understand your adversary in order to figure out how they are thinking, what they will be doing, how they will react.

Hillary Clinton

#10. The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as they are, you will be a much happier, more balanced, compassionate person.

Pema Chodron