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Famous Birthdays Quotes

All I want for my birthday is another birthday. - Ian Dury

All I want for my birthday is another birthday. β€” Ian Dury

I was born on Nov. 4, which is election day ... my birthday has made more men and sent more back to honest work than any other days in the year. β€” Will Rogers

Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future. β€” Aesop

My birthday was Monday, now I finally get to go home and enjoy it with some Burger King. Here I come baby! Burger King! Burger King! β€” James Toney

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. β€” Robert Orben

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. β€” Jean Paul Richter

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar..... Yung No Mo β€” Dana Rosemary Scallon

But when I look back I can't call myself unlucky. My 23rd birthday was December 14. In these years I have had more than most people get in a lifetime. β€” Ernie Davis

There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

There is still no cure for the common birthday. β€” John Glenn

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday? β€” Prince

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. - Sammy Hagar

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. β€” Sammy Hagar

The United States is the only country with a known birthday. β€” James G. Blaine

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. β€” William Barclay

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day. β€” Martin Luther

There are two important days in a woman's life: the day she is born and the day she finds out why. β€” Terry Tempest Williams

Short Birthdays Quotes

  • Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears. β€” John Lennon
  • Act your age, not your shoe size. β€” Prince
  • Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more. β€” Mother Teresa
  • Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. β€” Dorothy Parker
  • Come grow old with me. The best is yet to be. β€” William Wordsworth
  • We turn not older with years but newer every day. β€” Emily Dickinson
  • A friend is one of the nicest things you can have, and one of the best things you can be. β€” Douglas Pagels
  • A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. β€” Robert Frost
  • Happiness is like peeing in your pants. Everyone can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. β€” Jon Foreman
  • May the moments of today become fond memories for tomorrow. Happy Birthday β€” Rob Jackson

Birthdays Image Quotes

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. - Eva Herzigova quote

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. β€” Eva Herzigova

Time and tide wait for no man. - Geoffrey Chaucer quote

Time and tide wait for no man. β€” Geoffrey Chaucer

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. - Dan Brown quote

No love is greater than that of a father for His son. β€” Dan Brown

Its My Birthday Quotes

Instead of celebrating my birthday, it would be my proud privilege if 5 September is observed as Teachers' Day. β€” Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. β€” Steven Wright

As nervous as I am to pick up a water bottle, that's how nervous I am to perform. My confidence is very high. I really enjoy going up, I feel like it's my birthday everyday that I have to go up there. β€” Gucci Mane

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. - Byron Katie

Your True Nature Is Love. There's Nothing You Can Do About It. β€” Byron Katie

Live your life to the fullest. - Shakira

Live your life to the fullest. β€” Shakira

I don’t care about what nobody say or how nobody feel. I’m happy, I’m living my life, and that’s what it is. β€” 21 Savage

I reflected a lot, I thought a lot on my 50th birthday. It has been one of the most important birthdays in my life, not in terms of celebration but in terms of retrospect. β€” Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received. β€” Ryan Reynolds

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people. β€” Stevie Nicks

I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. β€” Barry White

Today Is My Birthday Quotes

As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven. β€” Billy Graham

According to the book Celebrate Today, June 18th is National Splurge Day. Besides being the birthday of Paul McCartney and Isabella Rossellini, it's also mine. Go ahead; celebrate my birthday and don't worry about the cost! β€” Ernie J Zelinski

It's my birthday today. I'm not 17 anymore. The 17 Janis Ian sang about where one learns the truth. But what she failed to mention is that you keep on learning truths after 17 and I want to keep on learning truths till the day I die. β€” Melina Marchetta

Today is my grandfather's birthday." "How old is he?" "Sixty-three. It's hard to believe he was once a human being. β€” Charles M. Schulz

Celebrating My Birthday Quotes

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. - Lucy Larcom

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come. β€” Lucy Larcom

I never really had a celebrity crush when I was little. I know some of my friends have posters up on their bedroom wall; I was never really about that. β€” Sadie Sink

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness. β€” Aberjhani

I ain’t scared of shit. I will always speak on how I feel. I’ll be damned if fame and other people have me being a slave to my own thoughts. β€” Cardi B

And currently, there are four to five new works in the pipeline for upcoming celebrations such as the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian Federation, my 50th Birthday, and Sydney Dance Company's 25th Anniversary. β€” Graeme Murphy

Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end. β€” Richard Bach

I celebrated my 18th birthday in Japan, which was quite memorable; I was quite fascinated by the different traditions and the culture; it was so completely different to Australian culture. β€” Miranda Kerr

I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the lake on our property in the Catskills, and that night, skinny-dipping under the stars. Just being free and joyful. And that's how I [felt] about turning 50. β€” Marcia Gay Harden

I was born full grown in the middle of a hurricane and an earthquake on 10 September 1954, 12.52 P.M. When I found out that I had missed lunch, I gave such a shout that the Earth stopped and spun backwards two days. That's why I celebrate my birthday on 8 September. β€” Jon Scieszka

I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations? β€” Patti Davis

Birthday Quotes

So plant your own gardens and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers. β€” Jorge Luis Borges

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. β€” Menachem Mendel Schneerson

A mother's love for her child is like nothing else in the world. It knows no law, no pity, it dares all things and crushes down remorselessly all that stands in its path. β€” Agatha Christie

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children. β€” Sting

Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back to the Creator is what you do with your life. β€” Billy Mills

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. β€” Arthur Schopenhauer

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. β€” Natasha Bedingfield

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out. β€” Phyllis Diller

The golden age is before us, not behind us. β€” William Shakespeare

Before marriage, a man declares that he would lay down his life to serve you; after marriage, he won't even lay down his newspaper to talk to you. β€” Helen Rowland

Happy Birthday Quotes

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. β€” Aristotle Onassis

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. - George Burns

I was brought up to respect my elders, so now I don't have to respect anybody. β€” George Burns

Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young. β€” Theodore Roosevelt

One can remain alive ... if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity interested in big things and happy in small ways. β€” Edith Wharton

A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy. β€” Abhishek Bachchan

People ask me what I'd most appreciate getting for my eighty-seventh birthday. I tell them, a paternity suit. β€” George Burns

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories. β€” Buddy Valastro

Only a few things are really important. β€” Marie Dressler

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact. β€” Dr. Seuss

Love is like the little red toy wagon you get for your Christmas or your sixth birthday. It makes you deliriously happy and you just can't leave it alone. But sooner or later the wheels come off. Then you leave it in a corner and forget it. Falling in love is great. Being in love is a disaster β€” Mario Puzo

Celebrate Birthday Quotes

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. - Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. β€” Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses. β€” Ja Rule

Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No. I just gotta focus on making money. Cause ain’t no going back. I’m gonna be famous forever. β€” Cardi B

Where is Conor? He wanna fight with a bus. I want to fight with a real gangster. Iaquinta, thank you so much. β€” Khabib Nurmagomedov

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it. β€” David Horowitz

When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton. β€” J. R. R. Tolkien

I’m just the same guy. I don’t need to be a celebrity or a superstar. β€” Kawhi Leonard

I never had a single big break – because few do online. β€” Ryan Higa

Valentine's Day is a sham created by card companies to reinforce gender stereotypes. [..] I'll buy some cookies, but NOT for Valentine's Day. These cookies celebrate the February 14th birthday of Anna Howard Shaw, famed American suffragette. β€” Anna Howard Shaw

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. β€” Herbert V. Prochnow

Old Birthday Quotes

When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety. β€” Steven Wright

To keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age. β€” Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Life is like a hot bath. It feels good while you're in it, but the longer you stay, the more wrinkled you get. β€” Jim Davis

Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but beautiful old people are works of art. β€” Eleanor Roosevelt

The advantage of being eighty years old is that one has many people to love. β€” Jean Renoir

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. β€” Theodore Roosevelt

You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair. β€” Samuel Ullman

I'm going to die very soon. Before my 21st birthday. I won't live to be 21. I'm never going to be old. I don't ever want to be ugly and old. I'm an old lady now anyhow. I'm 80. There's nothing left. I've already lived a whole lifetime. I'm going out. In a blaze of glory. β€” Nancy Spungen

When LeBron came into the league, I was 9 years old. So I grew up watching him play. β€” Giannis Antetokounmpo

If there’s anything I like to do in my old age, it’s f*k a lot of melons. β€” Markiplier

Birthday Present Quotes

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one. β€” Brian Jones

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. β€” Douglas Coupland

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. - Uwe Boll

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present. β€” Uwe Boll

Don't think that even an engineer, when he buys a motor, takes it to bits to scrutinize it. Even he as a specialist buys from the external appearance. A motor ought to look like a birthday present. β€” Peter Behrens

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever. β€” Katherine Jenkins

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. β€” Annette Funicello

I have no problems with buying tampons. I am a fairly modern man. But apparently they're not a "proper" present. "Happy birthday, mum!" β€” Jimmy Carr

I hate birthdays, .. It's more like a new starting point in New York. For me, it's an evolution. I don't celebrate the past. I like the present and tomorrow. β€” Karl Lagerfeld

I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother. β€” Rita Rudner

The best birthday present I ever got was born 10 minutes before I was. β€” Bill Kaulitz

Birthday Wishes Quotes

Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom. β€” Rene Russo

Valentine cards and birthday wishes? Please...be on another level of planning, of understanding The bond between man and woman and child. The highest elevation, cause we above All that romance crap, just show your love. β€” Method Man

If you're not getting older, you're dead. β€” Tom Petty

Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you. β€” Margaret Brown

We're sending you best wishes And hope your day goes well And that you'll find some memories With stories you can tell Of how you had a marvelous time And those around you too With fun and lots of laughter And all this just for you.. Have a Very Happy Birthday β€” Janet Horne

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age. β€” C. E. M. Joad

Joy is that kind of happiness that does not depend on what happens. β€” David Steindl-Rast

Katrina Kaif is doing very well for herself and I'd like to wish her a very Happy Birthday β€” Deepika Padukone

If possible, forget the past. Look forward to the future. β€” Henry Watkins Allen

Thank you for all the birthday wishes, it's brought a tear to my eye, and a boner to my pants. β€” Jack Barakat

Milestone Birthday Quotes

When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense. β€” Maya Angelou

Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change. β€” Molly Keane

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. β€” Alexander Pope

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties. β€” Arthur Schopenhauer

Let every birthday be a festival, a time when the gladness of the house finds expression in flowers, in gifts, in a little fΓͺte. Never should a birthday be passed over without note, or as if it were a common day, never should it cease to be a garlanded milestone in the road of life. β€” Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. β€” Francis Spellman

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. β€” Jim Bishop

If you survive long enough, you're revered - rather like an old building. β€” Katharine Hepburn

There's no magic numbers in birthdays in my life, there are no milestones, there's no event. Every birthday has to be celebrated to its fullest, even if it's with one person or with 20. β€” Sandra Bullock

Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory. β€” Susan B. Anthony

Young Birthday Quotes

Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends β€” John Lennon

May you stay Forever Young β€” Bob Dylan

The older I get, the more I see the power of that young woman, my mother. β€” Sharon Olds

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. β€” Mark Twain

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. β€” H. H. Asquith

...inside every old person is a young person wondering what happened. β€” Terry Pratchett

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. β€” Mark Twain

I've been very competitive by nature from a young age, whether it was eating a bowl of pasta faster than somebody else, or always wanting to be the first one in line. β€” Maria Sharapova

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. β€” Pablo Picasso

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday β€” Sathya Sai Baba

Birthday Card Quotes

It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for, fighting on the big cards like UFC 200. β€” Amanda Nunes

The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other. β€” Johnny Carson

On Valentine's Day, millions of men give millions of women flowers, cards and candy as a heartfelt expression of the emotion that also motivates men to observe anniversaries and birthdays-fear. β€” Dave Barry

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much. β€” Malcolm Cowley

I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?" β€” Michael J. Fox

There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card. β€” Doug Stanhope

Thank you Dad... for listening and caring, for giving and sharing, but, especially, for just being you! Happy Birthday to you β€” John Walter Bratton

I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last. β€” Al Forman

Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed. β€” P. J. O'Rourke

All three [of my grandkids] earn money around the house, and all three spend their own money. Now I've noticed that when they have to spend their own money on birthday cards, they have decided that homemade cards are so much nicer. β€” Elizabeth Warren

Humorous Birthday Quotes

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for. β€” Will Rogers

I intend to live forever. So far, so good. - T-SHIRT β€” Darynda Jones

At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass β€” Mark Twain

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes. β€” Euripides

I believe in loyalty. When a woman reaches an age she likes, she should stick with it. β€” Eva Gabor

Why do men like intelligent women? Because opposites attract. β€” Kathy Lette

I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do. β€” Phyllis Diller

My aunt gave me a walkie-talkie for my birthday. She says if I'm good, she'll give me the other one next year. β€” Steven Wright

She's 80 my nan, what do you want for your birthday? "SHREDDER!! GET ME A SHREDDER!!", what do you want a shredder for? "IDENTITY THEFT!!". β€” Russell Howard

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much." β€” Frank Carson

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More Birthdays Quotes

I wasn't very good about juggling family and my career. I was interested in who was coming to the children's birthday party, what my son was writing. I was thinking about Legos. β€” Jill Clayburgh

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you. β€” Ogden Nash

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. β€” Dave Barry

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. β€” Kurt Vonnegut

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