birthday
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
2 more wisdom & wit from Mary Antin
Love the giver more than the gift.
5 quotes from Brigham Young
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
9 thoughts from Satchel Paige
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
63 sayings from Samuel Johnson
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
5 thoughts from Robert Staughton Lynd
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
30 quotes from Eleanor Roosevelt
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
25 other wisdom & wit from C. S. Lewis
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
78 quotes from Voltaire
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
12 thoughts from Gene Tierney
Let them eat cake.
2 sayings from Marie Antoinette
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
2 wisdom & wit from John Heywood
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
7 sayings from Lewis Carroll
I hate birthdays.
5 sayings from Zane Grey
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
45 other sayings from Thomas Fuller
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
33 other wisdom & wit from Erma Bombeck
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
5 quotes from Jim Valvano
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
18 wisdom & wit from Jean Paul
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
50 quotes from Robert Frost
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
4 other views from Ellen Glasgow
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
2 other quotes from Ella Fitzgerald
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
17 more quotes from John Burroughs
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
14 more quotes from Audrey Hepburn
Being seventy is not a sin.
14 other quotes from Golda Meir