Birthday Quotes
-
Washington's birthday is as close to a secular Christmas as any Christian country dare come this side of blasphemy.
-
When she woke briefly during her last illness and found all her family around her bedside: "Am I dying or is this my birthday?"
-
You'll find as you grow older that you weren't born such a great while ago after all. The time shortens up.
-
The birth of a child is the imprisonment of a soul.
-
The last birthday that's any good is 23.
-
When you're an expert in a subject, you can retain new factoids on your favorite topic easily. This only works for the subjects you're truly passionate about, though. Baseball fans can reel off stats for their favorite players, then space out on their own birthday.
-
For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
-
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
-
Your favorite kind of cake can't be birthday cake, that's like saying your favorite kind of cereal is breakfast cereal.
-
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
-
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too.
-
I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.
-
My mother is going to have to stop lying about her age because pretty soon I'm going to be older than she is.
-
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.
-
About 50 percent of the songs on the radio are like, 'Live like tomorrow doesn't exist. Like it's my birthday. Like it's the last day of my life'... Such a large percentage of pop music is really about party time.
-
Lead me not into temptation; I can find the way myself.
-
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.
-
Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor.
-
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
-
I think my first album was a gift for my birthday and a Faith Hill album; I loved her.
-
A real man is one who remembers the lady's birthday, but never knows how old she is. A man who never remembers her birthday, but knows exactly how old she is, - is her husband.
-
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
-
There's a vintage which comes with age and experience.
-
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
