Twelfth Birthday Quotes

#1. It's hard to pay attention and stay focused, especially when there is a lot going on around you.

James L. Farmer Jr.

#2. There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die.

Francis Of Assisi

#3. Buddhism suits me 'cuz nobody's in charge. Nobody's decidin' for me if I'm good or bad, goin' to heaven or hell. It's just me workin' on my head, you workin' your head, the friggin' Dalai Lama workin' on his head.

Ramez Naam

#4. If you ever try to change my memories again, I will slap you into next spring." I took a breath, knees shaking as I felt small beside him, my white dress brushing against his black trousers. Some women get flowers or poems from their suitors. I get insults and threats.

Dawn Cook

#5. Ada Taylor knelt beside me on the floor as I cried for the first time over the thought that my favorite person in the world was probably dead.

John Corey Whaley

#6. It's all about self-preservation now, dying doesn't scare me, it's whatever he has planned for me before it comes to the end that does. After all, it takes more courage to suffer than to die. And I'm not about to give in easily.

Danielle Dickson

#7. So safe," Coyote said, "that you can lose it in a day? To be safe is to be afraid. Is that what you want: to be afraid?

Christopher Moore

#8. In other words, time was a kind of palimpsest, traces of the past peeking through the present, only to be written over in the future again.

Melissa De La Cruz

#9. He [Freud] often said three things were impossible to fulfill completely; healing, education, governing. He limited his goals in analytic treatment to brining the patient to the point where he could work for a living and learn to love.

Theodor Reik

#10. Up until doing this movie, I hadn't really paid a huge amount of attention to those genres, but after finishing this movie, it really gave me a different sense of appreciation of the way the movies play out.

Chiaki Kuriyama

#11. Dursleys hadn't even remembered that today happened to be Harry's twelfth birthday. Of course, his hopes hadn't been high; they'd never given him a real present,

J.K. Rowling

#12. On the other hand, Andrea had decided last month, on the occasion of her twelfth birthday and for no discernible reason (at least, none that an adult could discern), that from then on her given name would be Fitzwinkle. And then

Alan Dean Foster

#13. Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Immanuel Kant

#14. Asking a consumer about his opinion of your advertising is like asking a deer about the best way to hunt it.

Steve McKee

#15. It is folly to seek the approbation of any being besides the Supreme.

Joseph Addison

#16. I am now in my twenty-second year and yet the only birthday which I can clearly distinguish among all the rest is my twelfth, for it was on that damp and misty day in September I met the Captain for the first time.

Graham Greene

#17. I simply cannot understand how any parent could kill themselves,

Henry Rollins