birthday quotes for kids

I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does. ~Jorge Luis Borges



You and I are not what we eat; we are what we think. ~Walter Anderson, The Confidence Course, 1997



I must complain the cards are ill shuffled till I have a good hand. ~Jonathan Swift



A stumble may prevent a fall. ~English Proverb



The present is the past rolled up for action, and the past is the present unrolled for understanding. ~Will and Ariel Durant, The Reformation



Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted. ~Fred Allen



Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone. ~Paul Johannes Tillich, The Eternal Now



One reason I don't drink is that I want to know when I am having a good time. ~Lady Astor



The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths. ~William James



Let every man and woman count himself immortal. Let him catch the revelation of Jesus in his resurrection. Let him say not merely, "Christ is risen," but "I shall rise." ~Phillips Brooks



In the last analysis we must be judged by what we do and not by what we believe. We are as we behave - with a very small margin of credit for our unmanifested vision of how we might behave if we could take the trouble. ~Geoffrey L. Rudd, The British Vegetarian, September/October 1962



There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and delighted himself and his reader with the melody of birds, the whisper of groves, and the murmur of rivulets. ~Samuel Johnson



Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its ultimate expression. The chasm is never completely bridged. We all have the conviction, perhaps illusory, that we have much more to say than appears on the paper. ~Isaac Bashevis Singer



Your body is a temple, but only if you treat it as one. ~Astrid Alauda



Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. ~Ludwig Borne



The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him. ~Cher



Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient. ~Bo Jackson



Eat little, sleep sound. ~Iranian Proverb



Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel. ~Author Unknown



We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once. ~Logan Pearsall Smith