Birthday Quotes

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.

~ Stevie Nicks

For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like 'Blue Kentucky Girl,' by Emmylou Harris, and 'Off the Wall,' by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's 'Purple Rain' - it just can't be done!

~ Connie Britton

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.

~ Barry White

Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

~ Ausonius

Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter.

~ Satchel Paige

Youth has no age.

~ Pablo Picasso

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

~ Bernard Baruch

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

~ Robert Frost

At my age flowers scare me.

~ George Burns

For me, the end of childhood came when the number of candles on my birthday cake no longer reflected my age, around 19 or 20. From then on, each candle came to represent an entire decade.

~ Yotam Ottolenghi

My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.

~ Paulina Porizkova

I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.

~ Q'orianka Kilcher

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

~ Brad Garrett

I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

~ Kristin Armstrong

You should feel good about making your home nicer for your family and your friends. You should feel great about cooking a good dinner and making a dress for a granddaughter, creating a beautiful birthday party. It's all part of life.

~ Martha Stewart

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

~ Denis Waitley

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

~ Homaro Cantu

I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.

~ Rachael Ray

It takes a long time to become young.

~ Pablo Picasso

Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.

~ Phylicia Rashad

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.

~ Jean Paul

To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.

~ Franka Potente

The American flag is an enduring symbol of liberty, democracy, and justice. It is fitting that the House act to protect it as we approach our nation's birthday, and as our men and women in uniform rally behind it in Iraq's battlefields.

~ Joe Barton

Fourth of July. My birthday is July first, and my best friend's birthday is July fifth, so it's always been a favorite holiday. It's all about having a cooler full of sodas, hot dogs, and just hanging out and shooting off firecrackers, being low-key, watching the fireworks.

~ Hilarie Burton

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.

~ Kurt Vonnegut

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

~ E. Joseph Cossman

I intend to live forever. So far, so good.

~ Steven Wright

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

~ Charles Lamb

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.

~ David Horowitz

We invest less in our friendships and expect more of friends than any other relationship. We spend days working out where to book for a romantic dinner, weeks wondering how to celebrate a partner or parent's birthday, and seconds forgetting a friend's important anniversary.

~ Mariella Frostrup

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.

~ Graeme Murphy

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.

~ Ryan Reynolds

My best kiss was on stage. Kelly Rowland from Destiny's Child gave me a really nice soft kiss on my lips during a performance on my birthday. It was amazing.

~ Chris Brown

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

~ Sammy Hagar

My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.

~ Blair Underwood

God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

~ Voltaire

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

~ William Barclay

I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.

~ Bonnie Tyler

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.

~ George Saunders

I don't really remember, but I'm positive that whenever I cried, my mother gave me something to eat. I'm sure that whenever I had a fight with the little girl next door, or it was raining and I couldn't go out, or I wasn't invited to a birthday party, my mother gave me a piece of candy to make me feel better.

~ Jean Nidetch