(80 quotes found)
“Well, birthdays are merely symbolic of how another year has gone by and how little we've grown. No matter how desperate we are that someday a better self will emerge, with each flicker of the candles on the cake, we know it's notto be, that for the rest of our sad, wretched pathetic lives, this is who we areto the bitter end. Inevitably, irrevocably; happy birthday? No such thing.”
Jerry Seinfeld
“Last week the candle factory burned down. Everyone just stood around and sang Happy Birthday.”
Stephen Wright
“It's really my being lucky enough to bag an inch of candle that incites me to this pitch of punctual epistolary. I must measure my letter by the light.”
Isaac Rosenberg
“We had to move everything out, ... I have a candle maker now in Alabama. I'm sorry we had to quit making them here, but we're going to be able to concentrate on growing the business.”
Virginia Anderson
“when I counted the candles on my birthday cake and cringed.”
Zell Miller
“A candle's true power is measured not on how wide or strong its light is, but on how many candles it shared its light with.”
john b. bejo
“To die alone is how would blow out a candle that someone forgot alight in this lonely world...”
Mariana Fulger
“All the darkness of the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle, yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.”
St. Francis of Assisi
“Is she going to be a match or is she going to be a candle? Is she going to flame out or is she going to be able to light up the arena? I'm banking on candle.”
Armando Siqueiros
“Like his that lights a candle to the sun.”
Andrew Fletcher