birthday
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.
30 other views from Eleanor Roosevelt
Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult.
25 quotes from C. S. Lewis
God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
78 sayings from Voltaire
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
12 more quotes from Gene Tierney
Let them eat cake.
2 views from Marie Antoinette
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
2 quotes from John Heywood
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present.
45 more views from Thomas Fuller
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
7 thoughts from Lewis Carroll
I hate birthdays.
5 other sayings from Zane Grey
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
33 quotes from Erma Bombeck
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
10 quotes from Charles Lamb
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
5 wisdom & wit from Jim Valvano
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
18 other thoughts from Jean Paul
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
50 views from Robert Frost
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
4 quotes from Ellen Glasgow
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
2 other wisdom & wit from Ella Fitzgerald
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
17 more quotes from John Burroughs
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
14 thoughts from Audrey Hepburn
Being seventy is not a sin.
14 thoughts from Golda Meir
Love the giver more than the gift.
5 quotes from Brigham Young
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
2 other wisdom & wit from Mary Antin
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
9 other quotes from Satchel Paige
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen.
5 other quotes from Robert Staughton Lynd
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.
63 other wisdom & wit from Samuel Johnson