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

"I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble"

"One can conquer the empire on horseback, but one cannot govern it on horseback"

"From all these extracts from the Bible I make no apology"

"The places that once knew Marie Antoinette now know her forever"

"I endeavor to make the most of everything"

"My judges preach against free love openly, practice it secretly"

"So after all I am a very promiscuous free lover. I want the love of you all, promiscuously"

"There is something wrong with a government that makes women the legal property of their husbands. The whole system needs changing, but men will never make the changes. They have too much to lose"

"The only weapon with which the unconscious patient can immediately retaliate upon the incompetent surgeon is haemorrhage"

"While most girls run away from home to marry, I ran away to teach"

"A white woman has only one handicap to overcome - that of sex. I have two - both sex and race. ... Coloured men have only one - that of race"

"Coloured women are the only group in this country who have two heavy handicaps to overcome, that of race as well as that of sex"

"A request spoken softly usually brings results and demands rarely do"

"I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM"

"True strength is delicate"

"I never liked the middle ground-the most boring place in the world"

"In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality"

"Don't retire - inspire"

"You always pass failure on the way to success"

"I tried. That's what this game of life is all about. Trying. There's the tryers, the criers, and the liars"

"I buy women shoes and they use them to walk away from me"

"One positive thought produces millions of positive vibrations"

"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere"

"Don't go backwards - you've already been there"

"I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great"

"Let's show up, on time, behave, and do our job"

"I always felt I never chose music, it chose me"

"I do like what Alicia Keys and John Legend are doing. With their music, you keep your clothes on"

"Love is like wine. To sip is fine, but to empty the bottle is a headache"

"Passion has been in my DNA for generations"

"If I was gay, I would be the best gay of all history"

"Talk about a dream, try to make it real"

"It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time"

"More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great"

"Television, in particular, doesn't look for talent; it looks for personas. You have a great persona? You can be a TV star"

"When they're applauding, stop"

"Discipline is not a light switch. Discipline is a way of life"

"Too much is how I love you, but too well is how I know you"

"I walk like I'm on a mission 'cause that's the way I groove. I got more and more to do and less and less to prove"

"I have a big nose, that's the problem... It's just bleeding, I don't know why"

"A lot of the media and stuff, you don’t realize how much more it is than just playing tennis"