#birth

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. ↗

— Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

#birth certificate #cents #certificate #extra #fifty

Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents. ↗

— Adele

#being #being famous #birthday #both #buy

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party. ↗

— Kirstie Alley

#binge #birthday party #day #every #every day

I adored my birth father and constantly worried that I was being disloyal to him and his schoolteacher roots if I spent too much time performing and enjoying it. ↗

— Julie Andrews

#being #birth #constantly #disloyal #enjoying

We are not born all at once, but by bits. The body first, and the spirit later; and the birth and growth of the spirit, in those who are attentive to their own inner life, are slow and exceedingly painful. ↗

— Mary Antin

#birth #bits #body #born #exceedingly

Let them eat cake. ↗

— Marie Antoinette

#cake #eat #them

The climate, the economic situation, rising birth rates; none of these things give me a lot of hope or reason to be optimistic. ↗

— David Attenborough

#climate #economic #economic situation #give #give me

With each new book, the march of our national history takes a step forward. When one is present at a book launch, one is bearing witness to the birth of a new body of ideas, to the coming into being of another testimony of history. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

#bearing #being #birth #body #book

They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion. ↗

— Ginger Baker

#birth #case #credited #heavy #heavy metal

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth. ↗

— Natalie Clifford Barney

#old #question #years #young #youth