Birthday Quotes

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top.

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

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.

My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.

I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.

Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.

I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.

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.

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic.

I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face.

I'm trying to get the record that I made at my birthday party last year, trying to get that out, and the lawyers are diddling around with it and it probably won't be out until next year. I don't know.

You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen.

The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend's birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people's birthdays.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday.

I was quite a shy child. I would get terribly nervous and throw up before my birthday party. And then I would be fine. I feel the same now. I get nervous, then it's fine.

The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

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

John Candy knew he was going to die. He told me on his 40th birthday. He said, well, Maureen, I'm on borrowed time.

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.

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.

I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It's what I wanted to do, so we went.

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.

Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.