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"We must determine whether we really want freedom--whether we are willing to dare the perils of...rebirth... For we never take a step forward without surrendering something that we may have held dear, without dying to that which has been."
Virginia Hanson
"Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity..."
Václav Havel
"Men and women are limited not by the place of their birth, not by the color of their skin, but by the size of their hope."
John Johnson
"On Fathers Day, we again wish you all happy birthday."
Ralph Kiner
"Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love."
Dean Koontz
"There are only three events in a man's life; birth, life, and death: he is not conscious of being born, he dies in pain, and he forgets to live."
Jean de LaBruyere
"When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death -- ourselves."
Eda LeShan
"It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
Clive Staples Lewis
"Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal...We here highly resolve that the dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom; and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
Abraham Lincoln
"They talk about their Pilgrim blood, Their birthright high and holy! A mountain-stream that ends in mud Methinks is melancholy."
James Russel Lowell
"Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from birth what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government to do good."
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
"You need chaos in your soul to give birth to a dancing star."
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it."
Author Unknown
"A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip."
Author Unknown
"You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely."
Author Unknown
"They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body."
Author Unknown
"You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience."
Author Unknown
"I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now."
Author Unknown
"Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician."
Author Unknown
"Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once."
Dave Barry
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