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Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one's own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.

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Robert Staughton Lynd
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Category: Birthday

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
  • 2. At my age flowers scare me.
  • 3. We grew up in a very creative environment and were exposed to the arts at a very young age so it's not a surprise that all of us are in some form of the arts.

2 Amazing

  • 1. New Orleans in an amazing town.
  • 2. I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
  • 3. I stood for parliament with the amazing support and help of my ex-husband but it's not something that was handed to me like a peerage. I worked hard and was elected. So my achievements such as they are are my own.

3 Anger

  • 1. There is nothing that so much gratifies an ill tongue as when it finds an angry heart.
  • 2. Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before – it takes something from him.
  • 3. Anger is a transient hatred or at least very like it.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 2. One should believe in marriage as in the immortality of the soul.
  • 3. The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.

5 Architecture

  • 1. As a designer the mission with which we have been charged is simple: providing space at the right cost.
  • 2. We build buildings which are terribly restless. And buildings don't go anywhere. They shouldn't be restless.
  • 3. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building or architecture is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
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