never having seen any authentic record containing it. By far the larger part of the slaves know as little of their ages as horses know of theirs, and it is the wish of most masters within my knowledge to keep their slaves thus ignorant. I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday. They seldom come nearer to it than planting-time, harvesttime, cherry-time, spring-time, or fall-time. A
- Frederick Douglass
Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
Poem on His Birthday
- Dylan Thomas
I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.
- James Patterson
Just to show my dad that I think he's number one, I bought him a urinal cake for his birthday.
- Jarod Kintz
So how did he look at me?"
"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.
- Karen Marie Moning
...what could be more vexing than to be feted on his birthday when he wants nothing so much as to retreat in solitude to ponder the approach of his own mortality?
- Richard T Nash
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.
- J D Salinger
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
- George Saunders
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
- Sarah Sutton
I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the yearbut what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?
- Calvin Trillin
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
- Blair Underwood
Sneak out. He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?
- Rachel Vincent
- Frederick Douglass
Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true
Poem on His Birthday
- Dylan Thomas
I, Alex Cross do solemnly promise-to all those present at this birthday party- to do my best to balance my life at home with my work,life,and not to go over to the dark side ever again.
- James Patterson
Just to show my dad that I think he's number one, I bought him a urinal cake for his birthday.
- Jarod Kintz
So how did he look at me?"
"Like it was his birthday and you were the cake.
- Karen Marie Moning
...what could be more vexing than to be feted on his birthday when he wants nothing so much as to retreat in solitude to ponder the approach of his own mortality?
- Richard T Nash
The color of his pallor, however, was a curiously basic white - unmixed, that is, with the greens and yellows of guilt or abject contrition. It was very like the standard bloodlessness in the face of a small boy who loves animals to distraction, all animals, and who has just seen his favourite, bunny-loving sister's expression as she opened the box containing his birthday present to her - a freshly caught young cobra, with a red ribbon tied in an awkward bow around its neck.
- J D Salinger
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
- George Saunders
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
- Sarah Sutton
I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the yearbut what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?
- Calvin Trillin
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
- Blair Underwood
Sneak out. He shrugged, as if that should have been a no-brainer. But that was easy for him to say. He was dead. What else could they do to him, take away his birthday?
- Rachel Vincent
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