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

"By measurement to knowledge"

"Our true nationality is mankind"

"The man who raises a fist has run out of ideas"

"Advertising is legalized lying"

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo"

"What really matters is what you do with what you have"

"If we don't end war, war will end us"

"Those who would judge us merely by the heights we have achieved would do well to remember the depths from which we started"

"I am not African because I was born in Africa but because Africa was born in me"

"We were engaged in a kind of war, a war against poverty and disease, against ignorance, against tribalism and disunity. We needed to secure the conditions which could allow us to pursue our policy of reconstruction and development"

"We believe in the rights of all peoples to govern themselves. We affirm the right of all colonial peoples to control their own destiny. All colonies must be free from foreign imperialist control, whether political or economic"

"We have a duty to prove to the world that Africans can conduct their own affairs with efficiency and tolerance and through the exercise of democracy. We must set an example to all Africa"

"As I pointed out, that also entails hard work. That new Africa is ready to fight his own battles and show that after all the black man is capable of managing his own affairs"

"Capitalism is a development by refinement from feudalism just as feudalism is a development by refinement from slavery. Capitalism is but the gentleman's method of slavery"

"We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialised socialist society. We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers"

"We are going to demonstrate to the world, to the other nations, that we are prepared to lay our foundation – our own African personality"

"Freedom brings responsibilities, and our experience can be enriched only by the acceptance of these responsibilities"

"The difference between myself and Castro is that I am not aligned and he is; I am a socialist and he is a communist"

"Capitalism is too complicated a system for a newly independent nation. Hence the need for a socialistic society"

"Our armed struggle for freedom is neither moral nor immoral, it is a scientific historically-determined necessity"

"We have awakened. We will not sleep anymore. Today, from now one, there is a new African in the world"

"Never in the history of the world has an alien ruler granted self-rule to a people on a silver platter"

"African unity gives an indispensable continental dimension to the concept of the African nation"

"The independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked to the total liberation of Africa"

"Seek ye first the political kingdom and all things shall be added unto you"

"Action without thought is empty. Thought without action is blind"

"The only colonialist or imperialist I trust is a dead one"

"We have won the battle and again rededicate ourselves"

"Neo-colonialism can only flourish in a client state"

"Always be the servant of the people"

"The guerrilla is the masses in arms"

"Forward ever, backward never"

"Ghana will be free forever"

"Animation isn't the illusion of life; it is life"

"An animator is an actor with a pencil"

"Bugs is who we want to be. Daffy is who we are"

"There are very little things in this life I cannot afford and patience is one of them"

"I drank my liver out"

"My definition of a redundancy is an air-bag in a politician's car"

"I don't like anything that eats while I sleep"

"Live your life as if it's real....a thousand kisses deep"

"In the broken places, the light shines through"

"A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh"

"Why die on Mars when you can live in South Dakota?"

"Because you can't do anything halfway, you've got to go all the way in anything you do"

"We are in the transport business. We transport audiences from one place to another"

"People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad"

"The place where you made your stand never mattered. Only that you were there... and still on your feet"

"Might as well try to drink the ocean with a spoon as argue with a lover"

"To write is human, to edit is divine"

"People are like music, some speak the truth and others are just noise"

"I'm suspicious of people who don't like dogs, but I trust a dog when it doesn't like a person"

"I base all my election promises and policies on opinion polls"

"You talk about either the score or source music over a particular scene, what might work. You just throw a piece of music over the scene, and we both listen to it"

"To me, in my little fat skull, the laugh is just the widest demographic you can get"

"I'd like to think that the notion of inspiration will transcend cultural things that are going on"

"They think it's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission"

"I love that you can just look into someone's eyes and lie - and it's perfectly acceptable"

"Girls, what are you doing? Those legs are about as straight as Elton John"

"I don’t sweat…I glisten"

"Nashville is one of the greatest places for the best songwriters in the world. It's been fantastic to live there and to raise our family there"

"Being memorable is more important than winning"

"Jeans don't lie, and I am just happy!"

"Do men have a biological clock? I feel like I do. Something is definitely ticking!"

"It's hard to tell who has your back, from who has it long enough just to stab you in it"