Quotes about birthdays
Amit Kalantri - Wealth of Words
A birth-date is a reminder to celebrate the life as well as to update the life.
Ava Gardner - Ava: My Story
And the news got worse. It appeared that there was this whole other person Jesus Christ whose birthday a lot of people tended to confuse with mine. I was personally outraged. It was a long time before I forgave the Lord for that.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana - The Use and Misuse of Children
Although they probably know that some children were used and some children are used as miners, most adults are ignorant of the chocolate industry’s use of minors.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Most people would instantly start feeling ten years older if someone were to convince them that they were actually born a decade before their birthdate.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
The day of birth is day of life.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind
A birthday is a glorious day filled with good laughter, gladness and great memories.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Every day we are reborn.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Birthday is special day of one's life
Lailah Gifty Akita -
Time is life.Time for birth, time for death.
Jami Attenberg - Saint Mazie
But I get it; it's a way to mark time. When your life's too busy, it forces you to check in with yourself. Or when it feels all the same all the time, maybe it can make you feel special.
Philippa Gregory - The Lady of the Rivers
Like almost all girls I don't know the date of my birth: my parents did not trouble to record the day and the time. I only know the year and the season, and I only know the season because my mother had a great desire for asparagus when she was carrying me and swears that she ate it too green and her bellyache brought on my birth.
Adele Rose - Awakening
How could they have forgotten the importance of today’s date? My brain screamed at me as, with shaking fingers, I climbed the stairs to the bus, before making my way to the back, out of sight. My birthday, like the norm, happens on the same date every year. Therefore, the confused part of my brain argued, how could they have all simply forgotten this fact and acted so “normal” when I entered the kitchen this morning? They may have been abducted by aliens in the night? This was a voice from the i
Adele Rose - Awakening
Surely, if my parents and older brother were awake now, that would mean that they would have remembered such an important date and, as soon as they saw me, congratulate me on living another year? Adele Rose, Awakening.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Life begins at the day of birth. Birthday is a great day of honour.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
A child of God, special possession.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
The birth of a child is divine miracle.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
Birthday is a sacred-life celebration.
Caroline Kepnes - Hidden Bodies
People are so lonely, they spend their birthdays on the Internet, thanking people for wishing them a happy birthday, people who only know it’s their birthday because Facebook told them.
Else Holmelund Minarik - Little Bear
Birthday Soup is good to eat, but not as good as Birthday Cake.
Milton Berle -
I can't tell you his age but when he was born the wonder drug was Mercurochrome.
Jacob Braude -
You know you're getting older when you don't care where your wife goes just so you don't have to go along.
Melvin Helitzer -
Enjoy how sweet how thoughtful how kind I'm being on your birthday. Because tomorrow it's back to the same old crap.
Maria Morgan -
As one cat said to another: Birthdays are like fur balls - the more you have the more you gag.
Woody Allen -
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to a hundred.
Elmer Pasta -
She claims she just turned thirty but it must have been a U-turn!
Anonymous -
She's not pushing forty she's dragging it.
Robert Orben -
My wife never lies about her age. She just tells everyone she's as old as I am. Then she lies about my age.
Joan Rivers -
Looking fifty is great - if you're sixty.
Dan Bennett -
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier.
Tanya Noe -
For weeks I've been telling him not to buy anything for my birthday and he still forgot to bring me something.
Anonymous -
The age of some women is like the speedometer on a used car - you know it's set back but you don't know how far.
Toni Anderson -
What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any older."
Phyllis Diller -
The best contraceptive for old people is nudity.
Anonymous -
Pushing fifty is exercise enough.
Bette Midler -
After thirty a body has a mind of its own.
Lotus Weinstock -
Of all the things I miss the thing I miss the most is my mind.
Roy Acuff -
My health is good it's my age that's bad.
George Burns -
I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.
Ludwig von Mises -
At eighty-eight how do you feel when getting up in the morning? . . . Amazed!
Abigail Van Buren -
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Brian Morgan -
He's so old his social security number is two digits.
Fletcher Anderson -
Sometimes I feel that I'm not just aging . . . I'm decomposing.
Douglas Jerrold -
My notion of a wife at forty is that a man should be able to change her like a banknote for two twenties.
Bennett Cerf -
Middle age is when your old classmates are so gray and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.
Tom Lehrer -
It's a sobering thought: When Mozart was my age he had been dead for two years.
George Burns -
You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.
Anonymous -
When I think of my dad as a little boy I tend to think of him in black and white.
Doris Day -
The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
Bob Hope -
I don't generally feel anything until noon then it's time for my nap.
T. S. Eliot -
The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always asked to do things and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.
Robert Orben -
It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.
James Thurber -
I'm sixty-five but if there were fifteen months in every year I'd only be forty-eight.
Peg Bundy -
Try to accept each other for what you are and don't point out the fact that the hair he's losing on his head is now growing out of his nose - and his ears.
Mark Twain -
Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.
Laurence J. Peter -
Middle age is when anything new in the way you feel is most likely a symptom.
Dennis Wolfberg -
There's one advantage to being 102. There's no peer pressure.
Ogden Nash -
Middle age is when you have met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else and usually is.
E. Joseph Cossman -
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
James Humes -
Actually being sixty-five isn't so bad. As a matter of fact I rather like being called a sexagenarian. At this time of life it sounds like flattery.
Ben Klitzner -
Middle age is when your narrow waist and broad mind begin to change places.
Sophie Tucker -
The secret to longevity is to keep breathing.
Woody Allen -
I'm at the stage of life when if a girl says no to me I'm profoundly grateful to her.
Jean Bucher -
People who have the most birthdays live the longest.
Franklin Pierce Adams -
Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.
Gypsy Rose Lee -
I have everything I had twenty years ago only it's all a little bit lower.
Robert Orben -
I may be forty but every morning when I get up I feel like a twenty-year-old. Unfortunately there's never one around.
Sir Malcolm Sargent -
To what do you attribute your advanced age? Well I suppose I must attribute it to the fact that I have not died.
Satchel Paige -
Age is mind over matter. If you don't mind it doesn't matter.
Anonymous -
She's too young for Medicare and too old for me to care.
Anonymous -
When she told me her age I believed her - why not? she hasn't changed her story for five years.
Red Skelton -
There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.
Diane de Poitiers -
She was born in the year of our Lord only knows. The years that a woman subtracts from her age are not lost. They are added to other women's.
Fred Astaire -
Old age is like everything else to make a success of it you got to start young.
Albert Einstein -
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
Flip Wilson -
The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down.
Edith Bunker -
I was just thinking when I was a young girl I never knew what every young girl was supposed to know. And now I am going to be an old lady I don't know what every old lady is supposed to know.
Elmer Pasta -
He is at an age that whenever a pretty girl smiles at him he immediately looks down to see what is unzipped.
Anonymous -
Life begins at fifty but so does bad eyesight arthritis and the habit of telling the same story three times to the same listeners.
Billy Elmer -
Women don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty but when you get to be seventy it stretches into a condor.
Anonymous -
When Julia Child was asked to what she credited her longevity she replied "Red meat and gin."
Anonymous -
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present. She let me win an argument.
Anonymous -
When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.
Lucille Ball -
The secret of staying young is to live honestly eat slowly and lie about your age.
Lady Nancy Astor -
I refuse to admit I'm more than fifty-two even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
Red Skelton -
There are three ages of man: youth middle age and "Gee you look good."
Golda Meir -
Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do.
Sigmund Z. Engel -
The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.
Phyllis Diller -
I'm at an age where my back goes out more than I do.
Anonymous -
Remember when we used to laugh at old people when we were young? Do you recall what was so funny?
Edgar Howe -
If you want to know how old a woman is . . . ask her sister-in-law.
Gray Kristofferson -
You know you are getting older when "happy hour" is a nap.
Anonymous -
I wouldn't say someone is old just because his social security is in Roman numerals or because Mozart played at his senior prom.
Bill Cosby -
Gray hair is God's graffiti.
Anonymous -
If you think a lot of the comments made tonight are not funny but are immature and tasteless that's only because the sense of humor is the first thing to go.
Anonymous -
I was going to take you out to lunch for your birthday . . . but you already are.
Susan McClellan -
We've reached an age that when construction workers stare at us it's because they figure we might be considering a remodeling job.
Dave Barry -
You're only young once but you can always be immature.
Tara Sivec - A Beautiful Lie
You hate birthdays yet pee your pants over presents. There is clearly something wrong with you," Garrett joked.
Vann Chow - Shanghai Fools
Unexpected gifts were better accepted when they were presented by total strangers, I had learnt.