birthday

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 thoughts 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.

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.

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 more views 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 other quotes from Voltaire

I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.

12 quotes from Gene Tierney

Let them eat cake.

2 more sayings from Marie Antoinette

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?

2 more 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 quotes from Lewis Carroll

I hate birthdays.

5 wisdom & wit from Zane Grey

A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.

45 quotes from Thomas Fuller

New Year's Day is every man's birthday.

10 views from Charles Lamb

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

33 quotes 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 quotes from Jean Paul

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

50 other quotes from Robert Frost

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

4 quotes from Ellen Glasgow

The only thing better than singing is more singing.

2 wisdom & wit from Ella Fitzgerald

To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.

17 other wisdom & wit from John Burroughs

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.

14 quotes from Audrey Hepburn

Being seventy is not a sin.

14 quotes from Golda Meir

Love the giver more than the gift.

5 other wisdom & wit from Brigham Young

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 wisdom & wit from Mary Antin

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

9 other thoughts from Satchel Paige