Tenth Birthday Quotes

#1. Ruby's tenth birthday party. She wore a red dress and we skated and she told me we were halfway to twenty and someday we would go to France.

Catherine Lacey

#2. I don't think I've ever met a girl with a bazooka for a pet." Hunter looked both amazed and slightly frightened.
"That's Kitty," I said, pointing to the large weapon. "I got her for my tenth birthday.

Ada Adams

#3. If you have older children who avoid you like the plague, buy yourself some expensive bath salts, run a hot tub, and settle in for a long soak. Teenagers who haven't talked to you since their tenth birthday will bang on the door, demanding your immediate attention.

Teresa Bloomingdale

#4. Jeems was their body servant and, like the dogs, accompanied them everywhere. He had been their childhood playmate and had been given to the twins for their own on their tenth birthday.

Margaret Mitchell

#5. I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.

Alessia Cara

#6. On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as gifts, and a few days later I decided to cycle to India ... However, I was a cunning child so I kept my ambition to myself, thus avoiding the tolerant amusement it would have provoked among my elders.

Dervla Murphy

#7. Purpose! Purposes are for animals with a hell of a lot more dignity than the human race! Just hop on that strange torpedo and ride it to wherever it's going

Tom Robbins

#8. I don't know whether we Church members fully appreciate the Book of Mormon, one of our sacred scriptures, as we really should.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#9. He swings the knocker against the door. The entire building booms like a drum. It continues booming after he lets go, banging like a clock striking the hour, rattling like a great tin drum.

Christopher Bram

#10. When I was 13 and 14, there were a lot of jokes about my bar mitzvah and my grandparents, and then when I got older, it became more about touching boobs and trying to get liquor. I kind of ran the gamut of infantile behavior and I haven't moved one step forward since.

Seth Rogen

#11. It is not that sport, over-indulged in, coarsens the mind; it is that it dulls it.

Will Self

#12. I recently bought extreme chunky peanut butter. I opened it up..it was just peanuts. Wow that is extreme!

Jim Gaffigan

#13. If my books appear to a reader to be oversimplified, then you shouldn't read them: You're not the audience!

Malcolm Gladwell

#14. I'll be in hell before you start breakfast - let her rip!

Tom Ketchum

#15. Children should live a wholesome and natural life and go about with a mussel in one corner of their mouths and a shrimp in the other instead of sweets.

Halldor Laxness

#16. I'm American. Very American. Like, I-might-have-biscuits-and-sausage-gravy-for-dinner American.

Steve Hockensmith

#17. If a cat had a halo, it would probably wear it around it's tail. It makes a statement.

Sergio Aragones

#18. I'm trying to tell him everything will be all right, but how can I say it with a straight face? My son's no idiot. He knows when I'm lying.
The medicine won't taste bad.
The bath is not hot.
Daddy will be safe.
Lies.

Suzanne Hayes

#19. "Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall." 1 Corinthians 10:12

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#20. Stories full of metaphors are by writers who play the language like a mandolin for our entertainment, novelists,

Yann Martel