Birthday Quotes

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.

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.

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

If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.

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.

When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?

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.

The turning point was when I hit my 30th birthday. I thought, if really want to write, it's time to start. I picked up the book How to Write a Novel in 90 Days. The author said to just write three pages a day, and I figured, I can do this. I never got past Page 3 of that book.

My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.

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.

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

I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.

Being seventy is not a sin.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

I wrapped my Christmas presents early this year, but I used the wrong paper. See, the paper I used said 'Happy Birthday' on it. I didn't want to waste it so I just wrote 'Jesus' on it.

Love the giver more than the gift.

It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.

Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.

I suddenly realized how much I loved her when we attended Alfred Hitchcock's 75th birthday party last August. There was something magical about that night, and it made me see how much she really meant to me.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

With a recent birthday, I've been acting now for twenty years.

I play PC and Xbox games at home, and I just got a PSP as a birthday present.

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.