Birthday Quotes

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

As I approach my 88th birthday, it's become apparent to me that my eyes and ears, among other appurtenances, aren't quite what they used to be. The prospect of long flights to wherever in search of whatever are not quite as appealing.

I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.

I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.

The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.