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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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If my parents had made love a tenth of a second earlier or later, I wouldn’t exist. What an enormous miracle, just being given life.

Warren Farrell Interview by Jonathan Robinson (1994)

They could not love anymore, they thought, just drink and pour coffee and track people down in the rain. They were living frigidly, as if in a cone of frost.

Daniel Handler Adverbs (2006)

I fell in love with you first time I looked into
Them there eyes.
You've got a certain li'l cute way of flirtin' with
Them there eyes.

Gus Arnheim

I do it for myself and the people I love. It’s love that gets me over the hurdles and sacrifices.

Robert Kiyosaki

Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

Mary Oliver Thirst (2006)

Tis true, I profess myself a Votary to Love — I acknowledge that a Lady is in the Case — and further I confess, that this Lady is known to you.

George Washington

Mr. Clay, during my whole political life, I have loved and revered as a teacher and leader.

Abraham Lincoln

You don't have to love everything George W. Bush stands for to hate everything that Osama Bin Laden stands for.

John Reid, Baron Reid of Cardowan

In the fall of 1960, when I was sixteen and my father was for a time not working, my mother met a man named Warren Miller and fell in love with him.

Richard Ford Wildlife (1990)

There's lots of things I'd die for, Emily; my home, my family, my country. But that's love, not principle.

Paddy Chayefsky The Americanization of Emily (1964)

I love Twitter. How much is it?

Elon Musk

And hope is like love... a ridiculous, wonderful, powerful thing.

Kate DiCamillo The Tale of Despereaux (2004)

I handed in their game, without thinking about anything it was late when I realized my wrong attitude.. Sad when you love who else wants to deceive you.

MC Daleste

This is just a stopping-off point for me but I'll be stopping long enough to make it worth my while finding what people call 'someone to love'.

Javier Marías Todas las Almas [All Souls (1989)

I really love getting into the nuts and bolts of policy, ... The citizens need to become policy wonks. They need to start doing their homework.

Rich Whitney

He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia Gods of Jade and Shadow (2019)

I love doing TV. It's so great for my world as a mom, as someone who likes to have a steady job and go to work feeling secure because I'm with a family.

Ming-Na Wen

With their marriage, I am hoping that mothers will contribute to their country by feeling like they want to have more children. Please have many children.

Yoshihide Suga

To my mother, Darlene Walz. Thank you. Thank you for everything you have done for me and showing me what strength looks like. I love you, Mom.

Tim Walz

When I look out at the people and they look at me and they're smiling, then I know that I'm loved. That is the time when I have no worries, no problems.

Etta James

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