Birthday Quotes
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A preschool child does not emerge from your toddler on a given date or birthday. He becomes a child when he ceases to be a wayward, confusing, unpredictable and often balky person-in-the- making, and becomes a comparatively cooperative, eager-and-easy-to-please real human being--at least 60 per cent of the time.
Penelope Leach
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I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.
Ben Platt
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April 21. My birthday - I am told the fifty-seventh, and yet I feel only a boy. Must make haste and get my work done ere the night falls. Made an excursion with the babes to Mount Wanda.
John Muir
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I'm like a backward berry, Unripened on the vine, For all my friends are fifty, And I'm only forty-nine.
Ogden Nash
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I sing a little bit. I got a guitar for my 16th birthday.
Jesse Plemons
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Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.
Annie Elizabeth Delany
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
William Wordsworth
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I thought a bit of poetry might be interesting - I even write a few lines myself. I composed a short poem for my mum's 70th birthday recently. When I recited it I saw the glint of a tear in her eye...although I guess it wasn't the quality of the poetry was that making her cry!
Iain Dowie
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...We can work it out. Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting, my friend.
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney and Wings
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Every minute of every day, a child under 15 is infected with HIV - the overwhelming majority of children under 15 who are HIV-positive get infected through their mothers at birth. Without treatment, half of these children die before they reach their second birthday.
Gabriel Byrne
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Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed, you're got to pretend you're glad you were born, regardless of the fact that getting older means you're closer to dying.
A.M. Homes
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I believe that at least 70 percent of parenting goes to the mother. In our house, I'm the one who knows about all the school stuff, helps with the homework, organizes the play dates, and remembers the birthday parties.
Cindy Crawford
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Drink, eat, jump and dance as much as you can stand tonight, but not too much, because you are fifty now.
Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.
Rabindranath Tagore
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Given the importance of Washington, outsiders probably have an unrealistic perspective on how large the city is. The fact is, Washington D.C. is a small town, and most everyone knows most everyone else. That person of the other party who you despise will someday be at your daughter's birthday party.
Kevin Hassett
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For my 11th birthday, I asked to be adopted.
Kaui Hart Hemmings
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I decided if you're lucky enough to be alive, you should use each birthday to celebrate what your life is about.
Mary Steenburgen
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When carrying a jar of honey to give to a friend for his birthday, don't stop and eat it along the way.
A. A. Milne
