„What do you mean -- Happy anniversary? It's not my birthday.“
— Peter Greenaway British film director 1942
„You know it doesn't make much sense,
There ought to be a law against
Anyone who takes offence
At a day in your celebration,
'Cause we all know in our minds
That there ought to be a time
That we can set aside
To show just how much we love you,
And I'm sure you would agree,
What could fit more perfectly
Than to have a world party
On the day you came to be?
Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday.“
— Stevie Wonder, Happy Birthday
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cantautore e musicista statunitense 1950Pubblicità
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— Francis Escudero Filipino politician 1969
Translation: The fight is not over.
The Official Website of the Senate of the Philippines http://www.senate.gov.ph/press_release/2009/0820_escudero2.asp
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„Let's make a law that gay people can have birthdays, but straight people get more cake — you know, to send the right message to kids.“
— Bill Maher, New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
"Valentine's Day, that great state holiday" in The Boston Globe (14 February 2004) http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/14/valentines_day_that_great_state_holiday
„Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end.“
— Richard Bach American spiritual writer 1936
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
„What can we know, or what can we discern,
When error chokes the windows of the mind,
The diverse forms of things, how can we learn,
That have been ever from our birthday blind?“
— John Davies (poet) English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569 1569 - 1626
Stanza 15.
„With deepest veneration and fellow feeling, I clasp your hand on the occasion of your eightieth birthday. I know of no other person who combines such profound intellectual gifts with such self-renunciation while finding the whole meaning of his life in quiet service to the community. We -- all of us -- thank you not only for what you have accomplished and brought about, but also because we feel happy that such a man should exist at all in this time of ours, which is so lacking in genuine personalities.
With reverent greetings….“
— Louis Brandeis American Supreme Court Justice 1856 - 1941
Albert Einstein, letter to Justice Brandeis on 1936-11-10, ibid.
Dukas and Hoffman comment: "the handwritten original is among the Brandeis papers at the Law School of the University of Louisville."
„Most writers enjoy two periods of happiness – when a glorious idea comes to mind and, secondly, when a last page has been written and you haven’t had time to know how much better it ought to be.“
— J.B. Priestley English writer 1894 - 1984
International Herald Tribune, January 3, 1978.
„You know, I received an invitation that said "Please come to Ellis Island July 4th for the hundredth birthday celebration of an American institution". Somebody goofed. My birthday is not until February.“
— Ronald Reagan American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989) 1911 - 2004
A self-deprecating joke about his age, quoted at American Experience http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/transcript/reagan-transcript/
