#birth

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

— Brian Tracy

#acceptance #conditional love #gift #give #greatest

I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. ↗

— Liv Tyler

#age #away #cried #enough #get

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

— Jim Valvano

#another #anyone #believed #could #father

I used to be good with kids, but as I get older, I'm grumpy and terrible with them. As for doing a gig at a 6-year old's birthday party, you couldn't pay me enough. ↗

— Johnny Vegas

#birthday party #doing #enough #get #gig

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing. ↗

— Mike Wallace

#apparent #appealing #approach #become #birthday

As soon as I gave birth, it was as if you understand them. They become people, not kids. You start to identify with them. You see yourself in them. ↗

— Julie Walters

#birth #gave #i #identify #kids

I'm a neurotic New York Jew by birth. Creating characters is second nature to me. ↗

— Len Wein

#characters #creating #i #jew #me

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ↗

— Flip Wilson

#birthday #box #childhood #cracker #ever

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#births #body #common #experience #many

I’m reminded of Orville Tethington, inventor of the world’s first steam-powered fog machine. He’s also the guy who, after the Germans invented the flame thrower in WWI, decided to counteract it with his own creation, the candle thrower. The candle thrower was only battle tested once, and after fifteen minutes the war zone was littered with lit candles. Upon returning home after the war, some of the soldiers suffered such extreme and bizarre cases of PTSD that anytime a civilian lit a match or used their lighter, the soldiers would hit the ground and start singing “Happy Birthday. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#birthday #funny #humor #ptsd #soldiers