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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

"I can never consent to being dictated to"

John Tyler
10th U.S. president
Born on: 29th March 1790

"I was called from my farm to undertake the administration of public affairs and I foresaw that I was called to a bed of thorns"

John Tyler
10th U.S. president
Born on: 29th March 1790

"Patronage is the sword and cannon by which war may be made on the liberty of the human race"

John Tyler
10th U.S. president
Born on: 29th March 1790

"Wealth can only be accumulated by the earnings of industry and the savings of frugality"

John Tyler
10th U.S. president
Born on: 29th March 1790

"Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette - the more you woo her, the more apt is she to elude your embrace"

John Tyler
10th U.S. president
Born on: 29th March 1790

"Genius is inconsiderate, self-relying, and, like unconscious beauty, without any intention to please"

Isaac Mayer Wise
Rabbi, editor and author
Born on: 29th March 1819

"The nations of antiquity rolled away in the current of ages, Israel alone remained one indestructible edifice of gray antiquity... preserved by an internal and marvelous power"

Isaac Mayer Wise
Rabbi, editor and author
Born on: 29th March 1819

"Our most dangerous enemy is not the standing army of soldiers, but the standing army of enemy journalists"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Jingoism or Chauvinism is the invention and monopoly of the capitalist classes, whose interest it is to keep the working classes asunder, and to perpetuate international discord - the last hope of capitalism"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"I did not come to England to teach you Socialism. I came to tell you how the Socialist movement has developed itself and has grown in Germany, France, and other countries of continental Europe"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Marx is such a man of science as has not been produced a second time by this century, with the exception of Darwin; he has the renown, and the truly well-earned renown, of a great scholar"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"I have never had any idols. Happily I became acquainted with great men so early and so intimately that my belief in idols and human gods was destroyed at a very early period"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"The black care that another might have done better, that perhaps I might have done better myself, shall not flutter around me any longer. Begone! And to work"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"I saw that English Social-Democracy is not, as our enemies say, an army of officers without soldiers, but a good fighting army"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Under the continually growing pressure of work I was condemned to haste, to superficial working"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Knowledge is power"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"When Marx got into a difficult position he would get angry and losing a game would cause him to fly into a rage"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Militarism is not specific to capitalism"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Socialism without democracy is pseudo-socialism, just as democracy without socialism is pseudo-democracy"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"No Compromise - No Political Trading"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"We have perceived that socialism and democracy are inseparable"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"Our fortress can withstand every assault – it can not be stormed nor taken from us by siege"

Wilhelm Liebknecht
German socialist
Born on: 29th March 1826

"All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid"

Cy Young
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1867

"A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game"

Cy Young
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1867

"I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball"

Cy Young
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1867

"One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since"

Cy Young
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1867

"All a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign"

Cy Young
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1867

"If one was told that monkeys had built it, one could only say; What wonderful monkeys - they must be shot in case they do it again"

Edwin Lutyens
Architect
Born on: 29th March 1869

"All this talk brings the ears so far forward that they make blinkers for the eyes"

Edwin Lutyens
Architect
Born on: 29th March 1869

"There will never be great architects or great architecture without great patrons"

Edwin Lutyens
Architect
Born on: 29th March 1869

"The independent girl is truly of quite modern origin, and usually is a most bewitching little piece of humanity"

Lou Henry Hoover
Former first lady of the U.S.
Born on: 29th March 1874

"I majored in geology in college but have majored in Herbert Hoover ever since"

Lou Henry Hoover
Former first lady of the U.S.
Born on: 29th March 1874

"That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything"

Lou Henry Hoover
Former first lady of the U.S.
Born on: 29th March 1874

"The possibilities of night illumination have barely been touched"

Raymond M. Hood
Architect
Born on: 29th March 1881

"Illumination - the architecture of the night"

Raymond M. Hood
Architect
Born on: 29th March 1881

"At present we are in the A, B, C stage of illumination"

Raymond M. Hood
Architect
Born on: 29th March 1881

"Show me the man and I’ll find you the crime"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Let us once and for all root out the seeds of individual ambition. Let us smash any manifestation of anti-party groupism, put an end to efforts to destroy party discipline, in whatever form these efforts manifest themselves"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"They can’t all be Trotskyites and traitors"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"I saw the shocking place where our comrades perished. I saw the disfigured remains of the man under whose leadership I worked for two years in The Cheka" [about Solomon Grigorevich]

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"The whole revolutionary movement of Transcaucasia and Georgia, has, from the first days of its rise, been linked inseparably with the work and name of comrade Stalin"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"We must make an unbreakable vow - first, as under him. to continue the struggle with all sworn enemies of Communism and Soviet power in the Caucasus"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Do you know that there’s hardly anyone left of last year’s Caucasian governments? I’ve tried to stop it, but in vain"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Let us call to strict account all who try to degrade the organisational and ideological principles of Leninism"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Stalin's men had to distribute this unwanted human flotsam throughout the empire"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Let our enemies know that anyone who attempts to raise a hand against the will of our people, against the will of the party of Lenin and Stalin, will be mercilessly crushed and destroyed"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era Russian politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Scream or not, it doesn't matter"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era politician who uttered this to noe of his victims
Born on: 29th March 1899

"Now it's not a bouquet, it's a wreath! May it rot on your grave"

Lavrentiy Beria
Soviet era politician
Born on: 29th March 1899

"The Russians are an unpredictable lot"

Chapman Pincher
Investigative journalist and author
Born on: 29th March 1914

"I took up shooting, which has been a marvellous introduction to high-level people who know things"

Chapman Pincher
Investigative journalist and author
Born on: 29th March 1914

"I intend to die in the harness, like the old war-horse"

Chapman Pincher
Investigative journalist and author
Born on: 29th March 1914

"I always tried to meet all the top people because that's where the stories lay"

Chapman Pincher
Investigative journalist and author
Born on: 29th March 1914

"Happiness is dog-shaped, I say"

Chapman Pincher
Investigative journalist and author
Born on: 29th March 1914

"I still feel driven to pursue subversives and traitors whether they be alive or dead"

Chapman Pincher
Investigative journalist and author
Born on: 29th March 1914

"The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency"

Eugene McCarthy
Former U.S. senator
Born on: 29th March 1916

"We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense"

Eugene McCarthy
Former U.S. senator
Born on: 29th March 1916

"The function of liberal Republicans is to shoot the wounded after battle"

Eugene McCarthy
Former U.S. senator
Born on: 29th March 1916

"Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible"

Eugene McCarthy
Former U.S. senator
Born on: 29th March 1916

"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember"

Eugene McCarthy
Former U.S. senator
Born on: 29th March 1916

"People see God every day, they just don't recognize him"

Pearl Bailey
Actress and singer
Born on: 29th March 1918

"No one can figure out your worth but you"

Pearl Bailey
Actress and singer
Born on: 29th March 1918

"What the world really needs is more love and less paper work"

Pearl Bailey
Actress and singer
Born on: 29th March 1918

"You must change in order to survive"

Pearl Bailey
Actress and singer
Born on: 29th March 1918

"Fate carries its own clock"

Pearl Bailey
Actress and singer
Born on: 29th March 1918

"The goal as a company is to have customer service that is not just the best, but legendary"

Sam Walton
Walmart founder
Born on: 29th March 1918

"To succeed, stay out in front of change"

Sam Walton
Walmart founder
Born on: 29th March 1918

"There is only one boss. The customer"

Sam Walton
Walmart founder
Born on: 29th March 1918

"Communicate everything you can to your associates. The more they know, the more they care. Once they care, there is no stopping them"

Sam Walton
Walmart founder
Born on: 29th March 1918

"If you don't listen to your customers, someone else will"

Sam Walton
Walmart founder
Born on: 29th March 1918

"Losers assemble in little groups and complain about the coaches and the players in other little groups, but winners assemble as a team"

Emlen Tunnell
First black player to become an NFL assistant coach and the first black player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Born on: 29th March 1925

"I had to take the chance. My buddy needed me"

Emlen Tunnell
First black player to become an NFL assistant coach and the first black player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Born on: 29th March 1925

"Those guys don’t know what they’re doing. And it’s just a few. They’ll get over it"

Emlen Tunnell
First black player to become an NFL assistant coach and the first black player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Born on: 29th March 1925

"Vince made me see that my dream could have substance"

Emlen Tunnell
First black player to become an NFL assistant coach and the first black player inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame
Born on: 29th March 1925

"We don't break our captains. We kill them"

Vincent Gigante
Gangster and former boss of the Genovese crime family
Born on: 29th March 1928

"He prefers the security of known misery to the misery of unfamiliar insecurity"

Sheldon B. Kopp
Psychotherapist and author
Born on: 29th March 1929

"We get no more than we have been willing to risk giving"

Sheldon B. Kopp
Psychotherapist and author
Born on: 29th March 1929

"You can't make anyone love you. You just have to reveal who you are and take your chances"

Sheldon B. Kopp
Psychotherapist and author
Born on: 29th March 1929

"If outrageous imagination is the wine of madness, then come fill my cup"

Sheldon B. Kopp
Psychotherapist and author
Born on: 29th March 1929

"The unlived life isn't worth examining"

Sheldon B. Kopp
Psychotherapist and author
Born on: 29th March 1929

"Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't"

Lennart Meri
Estonian author, movie director and politician
Born on: 29th March 1929

"I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow"

Lennart Meri
Estonian author, movie director and politician
Born on: 29th March 1929

"If geography is prose, maps are iconography"

Lennart Meri
Estonian author, movie director and politician
Born on: 29th March 1929

"I'm a real Southern boy. I got a red neck, white socks, and Blue Ribbon beer"

Billy Carter
Farmer and politician
Born on: 29th March 1937

"Marijuana is like Coors beer. If you could buy the damn stuff at a Georgia filling station, you'd decide you wouldn't want it"

Billy Carter
Farmer and politician
Born on: 29th March 1937

"I'm not the Carter who'll never tell a lie"

Billy Carter
Farmer and politician
Born on: 29th March 1937

"Jimmy used to drink liquor. Now he's running for president and he drinks Scotch"

Billy Carter
Farmer and politician
Born on: 29th March 1937

"I refused to conform to an image that a lot of people thought a president's brother should adopt"

Billy Carter
Farmer and politician
Born on: 29th March 1937

"I do not deny I brought most of my notoriety on myself, nor do I apologize for it"

Billy Carter
Farmer and politician
Born on: 29th March 1937

"It takes time to save time"

Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr.
Astrophysicist and Nobel prize winner in physics
Born on: 29th March 1941

"Do what you think is right and apologize later"

Scott Wilson
Actor
Born on: 29th March 1942

"Nothing happens until I make it happen"

Scott Wilson
Actor
Born on: 29th March 1942

"I believe in the separation of church and planet"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Typical Hollywood crowd - all the kids are on drugs, and all the adults are on roller skates"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"I'm just trying to earn enough to get my daughter through college and my wife through collagen"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"No gentleman talks to anyone before noon"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"We like to call it "football" because, unlike American football, it is played with the feet"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"How rare it is to see a decent wrinkle on the screen. Hollywood is into facial prejudice in a big way. Age denial is the national sport"

Eric Idle
Actor, comedian, singer and author
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Recovery begins from the darkest moment"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Society needs to condemn a little more and understand a little less"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Neil Kinnock's speeches go on for so long because he has nothing to say and so he has no way of knowing when he's finished saying it"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"The politician who never made a mistake never made a decision"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"If the answer is more politicians, you are asking the wrong question"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"I am not running as Son of Margaret Thatcher"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Disunity costs votes"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"Political suicide can end a career"

John Major
Former prime minister of the U.K.
Born on: 29th March 1943

"The star player must slay his ego and learn teamwork"

Walt Frazier
Basketball player
Born on: 29th March 1945

"Revenge is always sweeter if your team wins the game"

Walt Frazier
Basketball player
Born on: 29th March 1945

"The regular season is where you make your name, but the post season is where you make your fame"

Walt Frazier
Basketball player
Born on: 29th March 1945

"What are eight million dollars compared to the love of eight million Cubans?"

Teofilo Stevenson
Cuban boxer
Born on: 29th March 1952

"It's not the size of the thing, but the detail"

Brendan Gleeson
Actor
Born on: 29th March 1955

"My work is what I give to people, that's my job, and that's where it stops"

Brendan Gleeson
Actor
Born on: 29th March 1955

"I tend to look for the good in bad people and the bad in good people, to make them human"

Brendan Gleeson
Actor
Born on: 29th March 1955

"I think it's what art should do; Make you feel less alone"

Brendan Gleeson
Actor
Born on: 29th March 1955

"When you get to the end zone, act like you've been there before"

Earl Campbell
American footballer
Born on: 29th March 1955

"If it weren't for the dark days, we wouldn't know what it is to walk in the light"

Earl Campbell
American footballer
Born on: 29th March 1955

"My running style was kind of just head-on, because I couldn't dance"

Earl Campbell
American footballer
Born on: 29th March 1955

"I want to be a food model"

Amy Sedaris
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1961

"I have a very muscular face. I'm good with faces"

Amy Sedaris
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1961

"Losing a pet is more painful than losing a human because in the case of the pet, you were not pretending to love it"

Amy Sedaris
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1961

"I live in the moment"

Amy Sedaris
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1961

"When your enemy's making mistakes, don't interrupt him"

Billy Beane
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1962

"How can you not be romantic about baseball?"

Billy Beane
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1962

"I hate losing more than I want to win"

Billy Beane
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1962

"You have to face reality some time. But there's no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to"

Billy Beane
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1962

"No matter how successful you are, change is always good"

Billy Beane
Baseball player
Born on: 29th March 1962

"Underwear is such an emotional thing"

Elle Macpherson
Model and actress
Born on: 29th March 1964

"You have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything"

Elle Macpherson
Model and actress
Born on: 29th March 1964

"I've had two children and no surgery. My body is the result of good genes and a healthy attitude"

Elle Macpherson
Model and actress
Born on: 29th March 1964

"Acting and modeling have nothing to do with each other"

Elle Macpherson
Model and actress
Born on: 29th March 1964

"You don't fix the inside by putting something on the outside"

Elle Macpherson
Model and actress
Born on: 29th March 1964

"States ban bigamy & incest, so why not same-sex marriage?"

Catherine Cortez Masto
32nd Attorney General of Nevada
Born on: 29th March 1964

"Let Nevada ban same-sex marriage; it's will of the people"

Catherine Cortez Masto
32nd Attorney General of Nevada
Born on: 29th March 1964

"I am not intimidating. I am a woman's woman. I love hanging out with women"

Lucy Lawless
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1968

"Treat everyone the same until you find out they're an idiot"

Lucy Lawless
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1968

"Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy"

Lucy Lawless
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1968

"Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge"

Lucy Lawless
Actress
Born on: 29th March 1968

"Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible"

Jennifer Capriati
Tennis player and winner of three grand slam tournaments
Born on: 29th March 1976

"This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected"

Jennifer Capriati
Tennis player and winner of three grand slam tournaments
Born on: 29th March 1976

"I was an emotional basket case"

Jennifer Capriati
Tennis player and winner of three grand slam tournaments
Born on: 29th March 1976

"Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways"

Jennifer Capriati
Tennis player and winner of three grand slam tournaments
Born on: 29th March 1976

"I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind"

Jennifer Capriati
Tennis player and winner of three grand slam tournaments
Born on: 29th March 1976

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