Turning 80 Birthday Quotes

#1. Did my fingering turn you gay? I hope not.

Michael Ian Black

#2. In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.

Terry Pratchett

#3. The perfect man is someone you love who also loves you.

Mildred Newman

#4. She reminded him of ( ... ) all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy earth!

Joseph Heller

#5. I couldn't believe I hit .342. I hit .333 one month in Triple-A. Otherwise, I hit .279 in the minor leagues. I'm proud of myself.

Robinson Cano

#6. But the thing about bad guys is that they have the biggest bosomed blond, they have great clothes and cars, and get great death scenes.

Eric Roberts

#7. Your destiny has not been decided by others, but by you. Fate determines our choices; but our choices determine fate. You will carry it out because you choose to.

J.R.C. Salter

#8. My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

Angie Harmon

#9. The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

J.P. Donleavy

#10. If clearness about things produces a fundamental despair, a fundamental despair in turn produces a remarkable clearness or even playfulness about ordinary matters.

George Santayana

#11. Some years ago I gave a concert in the mountains with snow all around, and that was much colder.

Andrea Bocelli

#12. Our instinct as parents is to order our kids around - it's easier, and frankly, we're usually right. [But] reverse the waterfall as much as possible. Enlist the children in their own upbringing.

Bruce Feiler

#13. It is a noteworthy feature of 20C culture that for the first time in over a thousand years its educated class is not expected to be at least bilingual.

Jacques Barzun