Chunk Birthday Quotes

Where were the years? Were they in the rustling leaves of the ash, the chunks of soil, the lichen-covered stone? Were they around her now, the hundreds of minutes experienced, the birthdays, the family holidays or Sunday lunches? Moments like this, when sitting still she could hear the engines and gears of all the lived lives?

Baking and drinking? Who would have guessed,” Eliza teased. “I’m eighty-three years old. I dedicated a good chunk of my life to this town. Now, I can do whatever I like. I can cook, drink, and sing ‘The Star-Spangled Banner’ in my birthday suit if I want to. As long as I keep the turnovers coming, nobody gives a hoot if I’m three sheets to the wind,

Stella got a glass of fruit punch and started screaming again — my tooth was bobbing around in her punch alongside the cherries and pineapple chunks. When she took a breath between screams I asked her if I could please have my tooth back. She threw it at me. Luckily it missed. Unluckily, it landed in the mouth of her yawning grandmother who swallowed it. Thankfully, there was nothing left to do but sing “Happy Birthday” and eat the cake. I accidently

What followed was the aptly named “Scramble for Africa.” Starting in 1885, the nations of Europe convened at conferences in Berlin, Paris, London, and Brussels, where they pored over maps of Africa, carving out chunks for their own needs and arguing over who would get what. All of this was done with zero regard for the African people. Drawing arbitrary lines on inaccurate maps, the European powers took traditional kingdoms, tribes, and language groups that had existed for hundreds of years and randomly sliced them up or smashed them together, often on nothing more than the whim of some European monarch who’d never even set foot south of the French Riviera. Quite famously, Queen Victoria of England “gave” Mount Kilimanjaro to Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany as a birthday present, transferring a massive chunk of land from the control of one nation to another without the slightest thought for how it might affect the people who actually lived there.