Twenty Fifth Anniversary Quotes

#1. Pvt. Robert Fruling said he spent two and a half days at Pointe-du-Hoc, all of it crawling on his stomach. He returned on the twenty-fifth anniversary of D-Day "to see what the place looked like standing up" (Louis Lisko interview, EC).

Stephen E. Ambrose

#2. The Rolling Stones reunited for a twenty-fifth anniversary tour last week. Keith Richards said that he's happy to continue to do what he's been doing for the past twenty-five years: cheating death.

Norm MacDonald

#3. When he woke, daylight was coming through the glass floor, and a boy's voice said, Oh ... You are in so much trouble.

Rick Riordan

#4. A strong brand is the only thing that can tip the balance of power between distributors and a manufacturer back into the manufacturer's favor.

David F. D'Alessandro

#5. If death is your lover, you don't got to be afraid ever that he will ever leave you

Francesca Lia Block

#6. [Olga's dreams of happiness:] Get married, always live in the countryside winter and summer, see only good people, no one official.

Helen Azar

#7. Don't be like my mother when my father had a heart attack. My mother had never handled the finances. I don't ever want to see anybody go through that. Women shouldn't be in that position.

Lisa Caputo

#8. Besides, humans aren't prey. They are our natural enemies. They are to be avoided.

Cynthia Leitich Smith

#9. Each day they expend innumerable foot-pounds of energy - enough to plough thousands of acres, build miles of road, put up dozens of houses - in mere, useless walking.

George Orwell

#10. It turned out that while you were searching for the meaning of life, you missed the experience of being alive.

Ruth A. Baer

#11. Gary has made the classic mistake of equating precise cheekbones, perfect breasts, and a vague association with philanthropy as the signs of a good woman.

Matthew Norman

#12. Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime.

Leo Tolstoy

#13. To be political means to speak out, to risk being called 'catty', or worse. I don't hear men worrying about whether they may be right or not. They enjoy the fight, whether it is with words or fists. Women still tend to shy away from controversy, to be uncomfortable with competition.

Madeleine M. Kunin

#14. I'll put it out there: I love getting hugs.

Nicole Kidman

#15. they'd followed their best instincts and based their lives on the premise that money couldn't buy happiness, learning only gradually the many varieties of unhappiness it might have staved off. Russell

Jay McInerney

#16. But we can control ourselves - right now, in this moment. That's something. Maybe it's everything.

Therese Walsh