Birthday Quotes

The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.

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

I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.

My parents were dishonest people. If it was my birthday, I knew my mother took me to the K-Mart and she stole my toy. She'd put it in the shopping cart and we'd walk out. I was raised with that.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

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.

I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up.

I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.

You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.

If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.

The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.

I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

All I watch is the Food Network. I took a cheesemaking class a few weeks ago, and I told my family and friends to only get me kitchen stuff on my birthday. I'm into every kind of cookbook and anything by Anthony Bourdain. I'd love to own a restaurant if I could find the right chef.

I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I hate birthdays.

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.

And for the city's birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston's great epic - the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.

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.

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.