birthday quotes for kids

The funny thing about firemen is, night and day, they are always firemen. ~Gregory Widen, Backdraft



One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us. ~Michael Cibenko



Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness. ~Seneca



A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ~John Ciardi



Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land. ~Cornel West, "Nihilism in America," Race Matters, 1993



If debugging is the process of removing bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. ~Author Unknown



I love Thanksgiving turkey. It's the only time in Los Angeles that you see natural breasts. ~Arnold Schwarzenegger



If you believe everything you read, you better not read. ~Japanese Proverb



Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton Say this much for big league baseball - it is beyond question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ~Bruce Catton



Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett



The moment when you first wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the twenty-four hours. No matter how weary or dreary you may feel, you possess the certainty that, during the day that lies before you, absolutely anything may happen. And the fact that it practically always doesn't, matters not a jot. The possibility is always there. ~Monica Baldwin



Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer



There isn't a single professional sports season now that doesn't go on at least a month too long. Baseball starts in football weather, and football in baseball weather, and basketball overlaps them both. ~James Reston



Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. ~Henry Ford



Always tell the truth. Even if you have to make it up. ~Author Unknown



Walking: the most ancient exercise and still the best modern exercise. ~Carrie Latet



Go with your heart, buddy. Our brains only screw things up. ~Chris Fedak and Allison Adler, Chuck, "Chuck Versus the Ring"



You taught me to be nice, so nice that now I am so full of niceness, I have no sense of right and wrong, no outrage, no passion. ~Garrison Keillor



Wherever there is a human being, I see God-given rights inherent in that being, whatever may be the sex or complexion. ~William Lloyd Garrison



The simple lack of her is more to me than others' presence. ~Edward Thomas