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Who Shares Your Day and What Did They Say? This is a collection of thought-provoking quotations for each day of the year by people who share YOUR birthday!

November 21

on November 21, 2013
Actress Juliet Mills in 2004.

Actress Juliet Mills in 2004. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Voltaire – 1694 – Writer

“Appreciation is a wonderful thing:  It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”

Friedrich Schleiermacher – 1768 – Theologian

“The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.”

Barry Cornwell – 1787 – Poet

“Oh, the summer night, Has a smile of light, And she sits on a sapphire throne.”

Harold Nicolson – 1886 – Diplomat

“The great secret of a successful marriage is to treat all disasters as incidents and none of the incidents as disasters.”

Hugh Kingsmill – 1889 – Writer

“Friends are God’s apology for relations.”

Rene Magritte – 1898 – Artist

“Everything we see hides another thing, we always want to see what is hidden by what we see.”

Coleman Hawkins – 1904 – Musician

“If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying.”

Jim Bishop – 1907 – Journalist

“Watching your daughter being collected by her date feels like handing over a million dollar Stradivarius to a gorilla.”

Eleanor Powell – 1912 – Actress

“What we are is God’s gift to us.  What we become is our gift to God.”

Stan Musial – 1920 – Professional Baseball Player

Goldie Hawn in Sweden

Goldie Hawn in Sweden (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

“Hitting is like swimming.  Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.”

Abe Lemons – 1922 – Coach

“Finish last in your league and they call you idiot.  Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.”

Marilyn French – 1929 – Author

“Men stumble over pebbles, never over mountains.”

Beryl Bainbridge – 1934 – Novelist

“Everything else  you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”

Marlo Thomas – 1937 – Actress

“My father said there were two kinds of people in the world:  givers and takers.  The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.”

Juliet Mills – 1941 – Actor

“Do some work in the theater if you can.  It is the best training you can get.”

Harold Ramis – 1944 – Actor

“Nothing reinforces a professional relationship more than enjoying success with someone.”

Earl Monroe – 1944 – Athlete

“Just be patient.  Let the game come to you.  Don’t rush.  Be quick, but don’t hurry.”

Goldie Hawn – 1945 – Actress

“The only thing that will make you happy is being happy with who you are, and not who people think you are.”


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