“What good is it having God for a mother if she never sends you a birthday card?”
Source: Only Begotten Daughter (1990), Chapter 3 (p. 50)
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Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer
There's No Such Place As Far Away (1978)
Context: You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are.
Napoleon I of France (1769–1821) French general, First Consul and later Emperor of the French
As quoted in Mama Was My Teacher: Growing Up In A Small Southern Town (2004) by Dozier Cade, p. 77
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“When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps.”
Dick Gregory (1932–2017) American comedian, social activist, social critic, writer, and entrepreneur
Nigger: An Autobiography (1964)
Bill Maher book New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
"Valentine's Day, that great state holiday" in The Boston Globe (14 February 2004) http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2004/02/14/valentines_day_that_great_state_holiday <br class="br">Source: New Rules: Polite Musings from a Timid Observer
Russell Hoban (1925–2011) American British novelist, children's writer and illustrator
Source: A Birthday for Frances
Martin Luther (1483–1546) seminal figure in Protestant Reformation
Weimar edition of Martin Luther's Works, English translation edited by J. Pelikan [Concordia: St. Louis], Vol. 11, Vol. 24, 107