Famous Quotes

"It's odd the things that people remember. Parents will arrange a birthday party, certain it will stick in your mind forever. You'll have a nice time, then two years later you'll be like, 'There was a pony there? Really? And a clown with one leg?'"

David Sedaris on Birthday

More quotes about Birthday

• "God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."

  Voltaire on Birthday

• "The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

  Oprah Winfrey on Birthday

• "My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."

  Jim Valvano on Birthday

• "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."

  Eleanor Roosevelt on Birthday

• "The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance."

  Brian Tracy on Birthday

More quotes by David Sedaris

• "After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations."

• "I haven't got the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out."

• "My family isn't really all that different from anyone else's. Well, maybe they're a bit more entertaining."

• "I tend to show everything I do to my family, to check they won't be offended."

• "What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny."