Birthday Quotes · Page 8

Celebrate life milestones with warm and witty birthday quotes for every age and occasion. Whether heartfelt or humorous, find the perfect words for someone's special day.

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“Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee, While the world's tide is bearing me along; Other desires and other hopes beset me, Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong!”

— Emily Brontë

“You think me ambitious: ambition, alas! is composed of more rugged materials. If I were ambitious, I should not for so many years have been a prey to all the hell of conscientious…”

— Horace Walpole

“Though one discovery always surpasses another, and though the chemical and physical knowledge accumulated since his time has gone beyond all Lavoisier's dreams, his work, like…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Certain details will age, as do the fashions of another time, but the foundation, the method, constitute one of those great aspects of the human mind, the majesty of which is only…”

— Louis Pasteur

“Young men, have confidence in those powerful and safe methods, of which we do not yet know all the secrets.”

— Louis Pasteur

“Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again…”

— Omar Khayyam

“Unceasingly the essence of things is taking shape in the matter of things, and this unspeakable process we call birth and growth.”

— Louis Sullivan

“I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.”

— Louisa May Alcott

“In the last hundred years, we invented the automobile, the airplane, and weapons of mass destruction. We journeyed to the moon and built shiny new cities throughout the country.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Sitting in a chair for more than 4 years now has given me plenty of time to think about many of the distorted and irrational values in our society.”

— Christopher Reeve

“Now that would have been science fiction a few years ago, but it's here and it's happening and it doesn't matter whether it's an acute injury or a chronic injury.”

— Christopher Reeve

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