“I want to tell Jamaica, Happy 50th Anniversary.” – Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce.
“I did that Dior Couture 60th anniversary show in July. It took so long to get ready, I think I would have rather been watching.” – Linda Evangelista.
“This year, 1996, has been designated the ‘Year of the Vaccine,’ commemorating the 200th anniversary of Edward Jenner’s vaccination of James Phipps with cowpox virus and subsequent challenge with smallpox virus. Insight into the nature of viruses, and how viruses interact with mammalian cells, has evolved since the turn of the century.” – Peter C. Doherty
“I don’t feel guilty about the music I love. If you feel guilty about something you dig, then you should stop feeling guilty about it. One of my favorite albums to this day is the 10th-anniversary ensemble cast of ‘Les Miserables,’ the ultimate cast recording, and it is still something I love listening to top to bottom.” – Corey Taylor
“Pride, to me, is a celebration of the past because we have come such a long way from the very first Pride parade marking the anniversary of the Stonewall riots, so it’s a celebration of all that we’ve accomplished.” – Sasha Velour
“My last trip to New Orleans was for the fifth anniversary of Katrina, and I had the awesome opportunity to bring my family down. We all worked on a house together and met some of the families.” – AnnaLynne McCord
“I couldn’t tell you my wedding anniversary (although I seem to remember it was in June. Or maybe July. Definitely a month beginning with a ‘J,’ anyhow. But not January. Um. I think) and people I went to school with get extremely fed up with me when I bump into them in the street and have absolutely no recollection of their faces.” – Claudia Winkleman
“I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.” – Aaron Neville
“My wife and I went on a safari break in Singita, South Africa, for our honeymoon and then we went back for our 10th anniversary, which was amazing.” – Tim Henman
“If people love ‘TVD’ in 20 years the way they still love ‘Buffy’ today – on its 20th anniversary – I will be happy.” – Julie Plec
“The new year 2015 will be a year of great significance, in which we will mark the 70th anniversaries of national liberation and founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.” – Kim Jong-un
“The key to a happy marriage is myself being absent for long periods of time. My wife Leesa and I will celebrate our tenth wedding anniversary next year, but if my comedy gigs petered out and I was around the house more, we’d 100% be getting divorced.” – Romesh Ranganathan
“I’ve never been one to celebrate anniversaries.” – Margaret Trudeau
“The public do get behind me, and I love the crowd. When I’m ever in London, they give me massive support – the Anniversary Games, the cheers; they are always nice to me.” – Mo Farah
“I think when I first realized that something interesting had happened was probably in 1994. There was a 25th anniversary of the ARPANET celebration and… somebody asked the question, ‘Where did email come from?’ I remembered that I had done this little program back in 1971. People looked back and nobody could find anything that predated it.” – Ray Tomlinson
“Anniversaries are like birthdays: occasions to celebrate and to think ahead, usually among friends with whom one shares not only the past but also the future.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
“Every year, I am conscious of the anniversary of my 1974 World Trade Center walk.” – Philippe Petit
“I never planned to join Black Sabbath – it just happened. It was back in 1979 when they were celebrating their 10th anniversary.” – Ronnie James Dio
“In the spring of 1984, I went to the northwest of France, to Normandy, to prepare an NBC documentary on the 40th anniversary of D-Day.” – Tom Brokaw
“For me, the making of a documentary to mark the 70th anniversary of the Battle of Britain was an intensely personal journey.” – David Jason
“It was less in pity than in anger that the world was moved by the photograph of little Alan Kurdi, that dead three-year-old Syrian refugee boy whose name we’re all remembering now on the first anniversary of his drowning, along with his five-year-old brother Galip and their mother Rehanna.” – Terry Glavin
“And this year is going to be the 25th anniversary of the 17-0 team, the only undefeated season.” – Don Shula
“Mr. Speaker, I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1, 2006.” – Solomon Ortiz
“I am so excited this year getting to play the 85th Anniversary Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade.” – Rodney Atkins
“I’ve been sober for two-and-a-half years, My children are happy. In August, my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary.” – Trey Anastasio
“Life is all about balance, and there are certain times of the year – birthday, anniversary, holidays – that are meant to be enjoyed without guilt.” – Harley Pasternak
“I am honored to be one of this year’s Urbanworld ambassadors for the festival’s 20th anniversary, joining my friend David Oyelowo.” – Ava DuVernay
“‘Yellow Moon’ was a poem. My wife at the time, Joel – she’s dead now – it was our 25th anniversary. She had the chance to go on a cruise with her sister. And I’m home with the kids and looking up, and I saw the big moon, and I just started writing.” – Aaron Neville
“The 60th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, has not so far provoked the kind of anguished debate that accompanied the 50th anniversary.” – Max Boot
“Companies such as Microsoft, Cisco and Intel were just starting at their 10-year anniversary.” – Jerry Yang
“We want to take the energy surrounding the Sandy Hook anniversary that might otherwise be consumed by grief or anger – or this week in San Bernardino by fear – and channel some of that to honor our common humanity and love each other.” – Elizabeth Esty
“I work every day hard. I put my body through hell. Let me tell you, every year, seven months of the year, I don’t see my family. Year in, year out. I miss my kids. Kid’s birthdays, anniversaries. I’ll never be able to go back and be with my family.” – Mo Farah
“In the primitive church, it was customary for the Holy Eucharist to be celebrated on the anniversary of the death of a martyr – if possible, on his tomb.” – Sabine Baring-Gould
“Last week, the House of Representatives passed a resolution honoring the victims and heroes of September 11th. As we commemorate the anniversary of 9-11, we must also remember that the threat is still very real today.” – Michael McCaul
“There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year’s, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.” – Rakesh Sharma
“My husband and I went to Venice, Italy, for our first-year anniversary and spent a day on the Island of Burano. There, we had lunch at the famed Trattoria al Gatto Nero da Ruggero – one of the most incredible meals of our lives.” – Maneet Chauhan
“An anniversary is a reminder as to why you love and married this person.” – Zoe Foster Blake
“I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities, with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.” – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“I worked with Dionne Warwick, did shows with Bette Midler, and then I did the 25th anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Springsteen at the Garden.” – Darlene Love
“To mark the 10-year anniversary of 9/11, I wanted to launch an FDNY shirt that pays tribute to the brave first responders who, like my father, risk their lives in the line of duty on a regular basis. All of the proceeds raised from the sale of the T-shirt benefit the New York Police & Fire Widows’ & Children’s Benefit Fund.” – Mark Sanchez
“Introduced to this world in Llandyssul, Cardiganshire, Wales, November 14, 1843, I celebrated my first anniversary by landing at Castle Garden, in New York City.” – Jenkin Lloyd Jones
“I dated a lot, but I never really had anyone who was worthy of an anniversary. And most girlfriends never made it to a year, anyway.” – Wale
“The Schwarzman Scholars is a program that was designed with Tsinghua University. They asked me to do something in honor of their 100th anniversary.” – Stephen A. Schwarzman
“The three hundredth anniversary of the Salem witch trials of 1692 comes at a time when witchcraft commands a scholarly attention that would have been puzzling in 1892 or even in 1792.” – Edmund Morgan
“In high school, I was crazy in love, and I would make handmade construction paper valentines every month for our monthly anniversaries. Then I’d go early in the morning and tape one to her car. It sounds sweet, but let’s be honest: it was a little weird. I was probably crossing some lines.” – Paul Rust
“I had a brief stint as ‘People’s Journalist’ for the West Sussex Gazette; I’d do golden-wedding anniversaries and pet deaths. I was always looking for an angle; it wasn’t great.” – Alex Horne
“So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you – and fight alongside you – until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way.” – Barack Obama
“As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.” – Leonard Boswell
“I think that when you get married or have other special anniversaries, you do it up the best that you can.” – Randall Cunningham
“For our anniversary, my wife and I went to see Godzilla, and then we ate at Barnyard Venice, and it was like, ‘We are crazy! The Kardashians have to keep up with us!'” – Bill Hader
“Are there memories left that are safe from the clutches of phony anniversaries?” – Pope Paul VI
“The 20th anniversary of my dad David’s death coincided with my 50th Test cap and for it to be my mum Janet’s birthday, too, made it an emotional few days. It was not an easy week, being the Pink Test and my mum having had breast cancer twice.” – Jonny Bairstow
“One of the most special moments was when my husband and I renewed our vows for our 10th anniversary. It was super small with just us, our girls, and a couple of the people we wanted to be there the most. It was so meaningful.” – Alyson Hannigan
“For our country and people, October 10 is a meaningful revolutionary holiday when they celebrate the birth anniversary of the genuine vanguard of the revolution, its militant General Staff, which has taken responsibility for their destiny and leads them.” – Kim Jong-un
“It is a matter of public shame that while we have now commemorated our hundredth anniversary, not one in every ten children attending Public schools throughout the colonies is acquainted with a single historical fact about Australia.” – Henry Lawson
“The anniversary of the tragic attacks on September 11, 2001, and September 11, 2012, is a day to remember those who died and suffered. It is also an opportunity to open a new dialogue on the tactics and strategies that have been successful – and unsuccessful – in confronting, containing, and defeating the threat from radical Islam.” – Pete Hoekstra
“This year, as we celebrate the 230th anniversary of America’s independence, please remember the symbols that are sacred to this country. Fly Old Glory high and show your respect and admiration for this great nation and the values we hold dear.” – Kenny Marchant
“Though many in the media do their best to conceal the achievements of President Trump on behalf of women, we are confident that women nationwide have taken notice and will use the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage to reelect President Trump on November 3, 2020.” – Kayleigh McEnany
“I believe the wedding vows are sacred and precious, and it’s been one of my goals as a writer to portray the kind of marriages I’ve seen modeled in my family – my parents and grandparents, who all celebrated fifty-year anniversaries and well-beyond.” – Deborah Raney
“May you live as long as you wish and love as long as you live.” – Robert A. Heinlein
“We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.” – W. Somerset Maugham
“There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.” – Martin Luther
“The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they’re right if you love to be with them all the time.” – Julia Child
“You were made perfectly to be loved – and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long.” – Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Love grows more tremendously full, swift, poignant, as the years multiply.” – Zane Grey
“A lot of good love can happen in ten years.” – Jim Carrey
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads, which sew people together through the years.” – Simone Signoret
“Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.” – Boris Pasternak
“I love being my husband’s wife.” – Julianna Margulies
“The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.” – A. P. Herbert
“I love my wife, she deserves anything and everything.” – Aaron Spelling
“Yes, it was love at first sight. I feel that after all these years, I have finally found my soul mate.” – Barbara Hershey
“Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree of being sacred.” – William O. Douglas
“I’ve been in love with the same woman for forty-one years. If my wife finds out, she’ll kill me.” – Henny Youngman
“You will reciprocally promise love, loyalty and matrimonial honesty. We only want for you this day that these words constitute the principle of your entire life and that with the help of divine grace you will observe these solemn vows that today, before God, you formulate.” – Pope John Paul II
“The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds – they mature slowly.” – Peter De Vries
“We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent’s birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend’s important anniversary.” – Mariella Frostrup
“I love marriage. I think it’s a wonderful institution and it’s the most important decision you make.” – Isla Fisher
“After 45 years of marriage, when I have an argument with my wife, if we don’t agree, we do what she wants. But, when we agree, we do what I want!” – Jacques Pepin
“Never tell a secret to a bride or a groom; wait until they have been married longer.” – E. W. Howe
“In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that’s ever happened to me.” – Caroline Kennedy
“Each year on the anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s birth, America has the opportunity to reflect on our nation’s progress towards the realization of his dream.” – Adam Schiff
“That there’s no more important decision in life than who you marry.” – Brad Paisley
“I love the institution of marriage, and I love my marriage.” – Kyle Chandler
“In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.” – Aldo Leopold
“‘Easter’ is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of a historical event, but a very natural and indeed inevitable way of calculating a solar festival. These changing dates do not point to the history of a man, but to the hero of a solar myth.” – Annie Besant
