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Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

Everyone was born with something to say, here's a list of the best and most memorable quotes made by famous people born on this day in history

"Times change, and we change with them"

William Henry Harrison
9th US president
Born on: 9th February 1773

"Conscience - whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown"

William Henry Harrison
9th US president
Born on: 9th February 1773

"The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators"

William Henry Harrison
9th US president
Born on: 9th February 1773

"To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity"

William Henry Harrison
9th US president
Born on: 9th February 1773

"A decent and manly examination of the acts of government should not only be tolerated, but encouraged"

William Henry Harrison
9th US president
Born on: 9th February 1773

"You can do anything in London, as long as you don't do it on the street"

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1865

"Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears"

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1865

"God did it on purpose so that we may love you men instead of laughing at you"

Mrs. Patrick Campbell
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1865

"All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"Poetry, far more than fiction, reveals the soul of humanity"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"Poets are always the advance guard of literature; the advance guard of life"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"Youth condemns; Maturity condones"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"Without poetry the soul and heart of man starves and dies"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"All recurring joy is pain refined"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"A creed is the shell of a lie"

Amy Lowell
Poet
Born on: 9th February 1874

"Before God I'm worth 35 dollars a week. Before the motion picture industry I'm worth anything you can get"

Ronald Colman
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1891

"A man usually falls in love with a woman who asks the kind of questions he is able to answer"

Ronald Colman
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1891

"The prison walls are gilded, and the key that locks me in is gold, does not make it any more tolerable"

Ronald Colman
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1891

"I've never seen a President - I don’t care who he is - stand up to them. It just boggles the mind. They always get what they want"

Thomas H. Moorer
Admiral in the US navy and joint chiefs of staff talking about the Israeli's
Born on: 9th February 1912

"When you call me a hillbilly, you’d better smile"

Ernest Tubb
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1914

"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment ... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; They know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"The only thing I envy in young people is their livers"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"I am a drinker with writing problems"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"To America, my new found land: The man that hates you hates the human race"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"An author's first duty is to let down his country"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"There's no bad publicity except an obituary"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"I am a daylight atheist"

Brendan Behan
Poet and author
Born on: 9th February 1923

"When all else fails, philosophise"

J. M. Coetzee
Novelist and author
Born on: 9th February 1940

"I am not the we of anyone"

J. M. Coetzee
Novelist and author
Born on: 9th February 1940

"Desire is rapture, not exchange"

J. M. Coetzee
Novelist and author
Born on: 9th February 1940

"A book should be an axe to chop open the frozen sea inside us"

J. M. Coetzee
Novelist and author
Born on: 9th February 1940

"Pain is truth; All else is subject to doubt"

J. M. Coetzee
Novelist and author
Born on: 9th February 1940

"I'm like a plant, I reach for the sun"

Carole King
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1942

"Once the inspiration comes, that directs where the perspiration goes"

Carole King
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1942

"I write heavily under the influence of James Taylor"

Carole King
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1942

"You win, you win. You lose, you still win"

Joe Pesci
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1943

"I'm just some lunatic macaroni mushroom"

Joe Pesci
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1943

"A winner forgets he's in a race, he just loves to run"

Joe Pesci
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1943

"Look closely at the present you are constructing: it should look like the future you are dreaming"

Alice Walker
Novelist and civil rights activist
Born on: 9th February 1944

"Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself"

Alice Walker
Novelist and civil rights activist
Born on: 9th February 1944

"Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared"

Alice Walker
Novelist and civil rights activist
Born on: 9th February 1944

"Activism is the rent I pay for living on this planet"

Alice Walker
Novelist and civil rights activist
Born on: 9th February 1944

"The protection of evil must be the most self-destructive job"

Alice Walker
Novelist and civil rights activist
Born on: 9th February 1944

"The nature of this flower is to bloom"

Alice Walker
Novelist and civil rights activist
Born on: 9th February 1944

"Take the high road because the low road is so crowded"

Mia Farrow
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1945

"Life is about losing everything, gracefully"

Mia Farrow
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1945

"Find things that shine and move toward them"

Mia Farrow
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1945

"A person without regrets is a nincompoop"

Mia Farrow
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1945

"You can't truly own anything, that true ownership comes only in the moment of giving"

Mia Farrow
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1945

"Women don't realize how powerful they are"

Judith Light
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1949

"We all have our own closets to come out of"

Judith Light
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1949

"The freedom to make my own mistakes is all I've ever wanted"

Ciaran Hinds
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1953

"Conflict sometimes produces results, but more often than not it produces confusion"

Ciaran Hinds
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1953

"I don't go looking for directors"

Ciaran Hinds
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1953

"Bad guys do what good guys dream"

Rene Balcer
Screenwriter and director
Born on: 9th February 1954

"The more I know, the less I sleep"

Rene Balcer
Screenwriter and director
Born on: 9th February 1954

"Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl"

Rene Balcer
Screenwriter and director
Born on: 9th February 1954

"In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car"

Rene Balcer
Screenwriter and director
Born on: 9th February 1954

"It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good"

Rene Balcer
Screenwriter and director
Born on: 9th February 1954

"I don't mind playing anything as long as it's work"

Jim J. Bullock
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1955

"I wake up every morning singing The Star-Spangled Banner"

Terry McAuliffe
72nd governor of Virginia
Born on: 9th February 1957

"Everyday is a new opportunity"

Terry McAuliffe
72nd governor of Virginia
Born on: 9th February 1957

"The biggest cause of divorce is marriage"

Travis Tritt
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1963

"Here's a quarter, call someone who cares"

Travis Tritt
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1963

"Just because I'm country music don't mean I don't have a little bit a' soul down in there somewhere"

Travis Tritt
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1963

"If you're gonna sing, sing loud"

Travis Tritt
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1963

"The whiskey ain't working anymore"

Travis Tritt
Singer and songwriter
Born on: 9th February 1963

"Don't wait for your break, make your break"

Charlie Day
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1976

"Thinking of Plan B muddies up your chances of succeeding at Plan A"

Charlie Day
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1976

"I have expanded my mind and destroyed my liver but I didn't give up"

Charlie Day
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1976

"I don’t think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great"

Charlie Day
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1976

"I don’t think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great"

Charlie Day
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1976

"After Crouching Tiger I got a lot of offers, but I turned them down because they were all victim roles"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"Only in Hollywood! I couldn't believe the first day I walked on the set. Rob Marshall walked me like a tourist round the set. It took 40 minutes, so how big was that"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"The whole subject is a land mine. Maybe one of the reasons people made such a fuss about "Geisha" was that they were looking for a way to vent their anger"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"I enjoy being an actress a lot, because I can feel different women's lives. I have the chance to feel like a geisha one day, and on another day maybe a scientist"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"I really appreciated Geisha, because it allowed us to show the world what kind of actors we are and what kind of characters we can play - not just action, kick-ass parts"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"You know, I never think I can become an actress. But it happened. Not because I dreamed it, but because it happened"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"In China, we don't consider someone truly beautiful until we have known them for a long time, and we know what's underneath the skin"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"I want, through my roles, to express the parts in the hearts of Chinese women that they feel unable to let out"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"I don't like kick-ass stereotypical roles. I already turn a lot down, even when they promise me a lot of money"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"I've been lucky, because I've had great characters to play. Now I really want to work with good directors"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"Being a star is easy, but being a respected actor is not. It’s something you have to constantly work on"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"For Western women, it's much easier to be yourself. If you want to do something, you just go and do it"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"It's my first time in a lead and I have to speak English! In a Japanese accent"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"I embrace hard work. I’m not afraid of it"

Zhang Ziyi
Actress
Born on: 9th February 1979

"Negative energy always costs in the end"

Tom Hiddleston
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1981

"We all have two lives. The second one starts when we realize that we only have one"

Tom Hiddleston
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1981

"Every villain is a hero in his own mind"

Tom Hiddleston
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1981

"Nurture your own confidence and make it real; don't pretend to be someone you're not"

Tom Hiddleston
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1981

"The dream is to keep surprising yourself, never mind the audience"

Tom Hiddleston
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1981

"Love your life. Because your life is what you have to give"

Tom Hiddleston
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1981

"I want the scripts Leonardo DiCaprio doesn't have time for. Joseph Gordon-Levitt isn't available? Call me"

Michael B. Jordan
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1987

"I think everyone starts in the mail-room at some point! It's a right of passage"

Michael B. Jordan
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1987

"You get given an opportunity, and that is the jumping board; From there you have to build your own path"

Avan Jogia
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1992

"If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner"

Avan Jogia
Actor
Born on: 9th February 1992

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