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Anniversary Quotes

There is no anniversary collection behind this page. It is put together from the pages on love, marriage, romance and time, then sorted by quality, so what comes up first is whatever those four pages rate highest.

Expect poems and passages from novels more than card lines. Some of the best material here only works with the sentences around it, which is why each quote links to its own page with the source and the notes. If you plan to put one in print, check the flag first: a line marked misattributed is fine to enjoy and risky to credit.

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The rugged trees are mingling
Their flowery sprays in love;
The ivy climbs the laurel
To clasp the boughs above.

William Cullen Bryant

For thirty years the Cubans fought alone for their independence; thirty years of struggle that strengthened our love for freedom and independence.

Fidel Castro At the United Nations (1960)

We love drama. We love conflict. We need a devil or we'll create one.

Chuck Palahniuk Haunted (2005)

A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self-love in others, and exacts it in return from them.

William Hazlitt The Plain Speaker (1826)

Teamwork is what the Green Bay Packers were all about. They didn't do it for the individual glory. They did it because they loved one another.

Vince Lombardi

He had a head which statuaries loved to copy, and a foot the deformity of which the beggars in the streets mimicked.

Thomas Babington Macaulay Moore's Life of Lord Byron', The Edinburgh Review (1830)

Without excuse and self-consideration of health or limb or life, true soldiers fight, live to fight, love the thickest of the fight, and die in the midst of it.

William Booth Revolution (2005)

He understands not only with his brain but with his heart. And that might be called love. Not quite sure, but maybe that's the key.

Anne Bancroft On her husband Mel Brooks Associated Press interview (1997)

Legitimized love always despises its easygoing brother.

Guy de Maupassant Boule de Suif (1880)

Each woman who lives in the light of eternity can fulfill her vocation, no matter if it is in marriage, in a religious order, or in a worldly profession.

Edith Stein Essays on Woman (1996)

“Adam knew Eve his wife and she conceived.” It is a pity that this is still the only knowledge of their wives at which some men seem to arrive.

F. H. Bradley Aphorisms (1930)

All the things that truly matter - beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace - arise from beyond the mind.

Eckhart Tolle A New Earth (2005)

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,
But—why did you kick me down stairs?

John Philip Kemble

Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments.

William Shakespeare Sonnets (1609)

I loved Heidi Klum, but now I know Kathy Ireland is on the cover of Forbes, so that’s pretty amazing as well.

Kate Upton

Russia must be loved, not because you want to. Russia is like gangrene on the leg. If you don't take measures against it, it will infect the whole leg.

Alexander Lebed

To perceive pure love that is God, you have to unmask your heart, unmask your soul, unmask the purity of your being.

Tapan Kumar Pradhan

"I love making films. Just the thought and idea of making film excite me."

Ayo Makun

“The flavour of life is love. The salt of life is also love.”

Mariama Bâ Scarlet Song (1981)

"I love making films. Just the thought and idea of making film excite me."

Kayode Kasum

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