Birthday Quotes

Everyone is the age of their heart.

A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip!

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

A birthday is a day filled with special joy, a day that lets you know you're always loved and cherished.

A birthday is a time to plan ahead and to dream of all the beautiful things that life has to offer.

On your birthday
stretch for a sunbeam...
Reach for a star...
Go for a beautiful dream...
Pick out some wishes,
no matter how far,
or how hard to reach
they may seem...
Cherish some hopes
that are dear to your heart...
And as a new year comes in view,
treasure and keep them
and know from the start
that this year
you can make them come true!

Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of 'you' to the world.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

Hope your Birthday gently breezes into your life all the choicest of things and all that your heart holds dear Have A Fun- Filled Day.

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. - Jim Bishop

At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest. - Samuel Johnson

At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. - Benjamin Franklin

At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. - Orson Welles

At my age happy hour is nap time

The Best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once. - H. V. Prochnow

Birthday Rules: Stay Cute. Wish Big. Never Let Anybody Count Your Candles!

Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.

Birthdays give us the opportunities to stop and appreciate all the beautiful things we have been blessed with.

Don't think of yourself as getting older...You are, of course, but it's best not to think of it!

Each birthday is a new beginning, full of promise and opportunity and the chance to make dreams come true.

Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I've been doing since 15.

From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. - Sophie Tucker

If things get better with age, then you are approaching magnificent. - Sara Teasdale

I'm not over the hill, I'm just reaching my peak!

In dog years, I'm dead.

It's your birthday and anything you want to do is okay by me...

I've heard how cranky old people get when they don't get their way!

Lying about your age is easier now that you sometimes forget what it is.

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. - Robert Lynd

Old enough to know better but too old to care.

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. - Jean Paul Richter

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,
And count each birthday with a grateful mind. - Alexander Pope

Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. - Ralph Parlette

The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille Ball

The splendour of old men...their grey head. - Proverbs 20:29

There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday...that time is age eleven.

Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years. - Jean Rostand

You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. - Bob Hope

Over the Hill - Lona Hatfield
Over the Hill and sliding down fast,
You knew being young just couldn't last.
Your back goes out the eyes grow dim,
You can't hear over the background din.
Aches and pains are constant companions
You wear bigger shoes because of your bunions!
The memory is fading, names you forget
You really don't want to get older - and yet...
The slide down the other side of the hill
Can give you quite an invigorating thrill!

What to Count - Emilie Barnes
Don't count how many years
you've spent,
Just count the good
you've done;
The times you've lent
a helping hand,
The friends that you have won.
Count your deeds of kindness,
The smiles, not the tears;
Count all the pleasures
that you've had,
But never count the years.

Turning Thirty - Sharon Yates Lyerly
I dreamed of being sweet sixteen,
Then magic twenty-one,
But suddenly I'm twenty-nine
And seeing thirty come.
My babysitter calls me "ma'am"!
It makes me feel quite numb,
How can I think of me as old?
I've always been so YOUNG!
Once I could name the "top ten" songs
Played on the radio,
And now I turn the rock groups down
Or hunt for something slow.
Now there are lines around my eyes
I thought would never show,
And pounds that used to be above
My waist have sunk below.
The boy I worshipped in college
Now lies beside me snoring.
His middle's thicker--so is mine,
And he's not so adoring.
He used to worship at my feet;
Now mostly he's ignoring.
I once clung to his every word;
Now sometimes he is boring.
I was depressed to see how fast
My youthful days could flee,
And then I met a fine old man.
His age was eighty-three.
His hair was white, his walk was slow,
And he could barely see.
He called me "child" and said he wished
He was as young as me.

At 50, you become a Wise Older Woman, free to honour wrinkles, accept your body as is, and admit that aging isn't about losing youth, but about gaining wisdom.

80!
Today Dear Lord I am 80 and there's much I haven't done,
I hope Dear Lord, You'll let me live until I'm 81.
But then if I haven't finished all I want to do,
Would you let me stay awhile until I'm 82?
So many places I want to go, so very much to see,
Do You think You could manage to make it 83?
The world is changing very fast
There is much in store,
I'd like it very much to live until I'm 84.
And if by then I'm still alive,
I'd like to stay till 85.
More planes will be up in the air,
So I'd really like to stick,
And see what happens to the world when I am 86.
I know Dear Lord it's much to ask,
And it must be nice in heaven.
But I would really like to stay until I'm 87.
I know by then I won't be fast, and sometimes will be late,
But it would be so pleasant, to be around at 88.
I will have seen many things and had a wonderful time,
So, I'm sure that I'll be will to leave at 89...maybe.

Birthdays are nature's way of telling us to eat more cake.

Birthdays are ordinary days sprinkled with stardust.

Happy Birthday to a guy who's smart, charming, and absolutely gorgeous...and I'd say so even if I WEREN'T your mom!

I know I wished you this before, but every year I wish it more: Happy Birthday!

It's always nice to wish the best to someone who really is!

May happiness fill your day and may sunshine fill all your tomorrows.

On your birthday, I'm wishing you something you've always given me...happiness, laughter and lots of love.

A special person like you deserves the best that each day can bring.

Today's the day we get to say
We're happy you were born - Hooray!

Wishing you sunshine, love and laughter.
Not just today, but all the days after.

Happy Birthday to Me
Happy birthday to me.
I like what I see!
There's plenty of junk food,
and the presents are free! - Mike Artell

Monday's Child
Monday's child is fair of face;
Tuesday's child is full of grace;
Wednesday's child is on the go;
Thursday's child is a joy to know.
Friday's child is loving and giving;
Saturday's child takes joy in living;
but the child that is born on the Sabbath day
is merry and blithe and bright and gay.

The Birthday Child - Rose Fyleman
Everything's been different
All the day long,
Lovely things have happened,
Nothing has gone wrong.
Nobody has scolded me,
Everyone has smiled.
Isn't it delicious
To be a birthday child?

Packages - Adelaide Lowe
Isn't it fun to open packages?
Isn't it fun to guess
What's in them first? It might be a doll
Or a game or a party dress.
I like them best when they come with ribbons
And bows to be untied.
And pretty seals that you have to tear
Before you can look inside.

Never Quite Just Right
They say I'm too young,
to cross the street to play.
That I'm too old to cry,
When I don't get my way.
That I am much to big,
to swing on the garden gate.
But very much too small,
to stay up after eight.
I'm young, I'm old, I'm big, I'm small-
Do you ever think, in age and height,
I will ever grow to be just right?

What Is a One-Year Old?
A One-year-old daughter
is so many things...
A tiny discoverer
of butterfly wings,
A hugger of Teddies,
A sweet sleepyhead,
And someone to dream for
in bright years ahead.
A special new person
Who, right from the start,
Has a place in the family
And, of course, in your heart.
And, just when you think
That you've learned all the things
That your dear Daughter is
And the joy that she brings,
A hug or a grin
Comes with such sweet surprise
That love finds you smiling
With tears in your eyes!

Four Years Old - Joan Walsh Anglund
Something's happened!
It happened to me!
Yesterday, I was only three.
But when today
came through the door,
suddenly
I turned to FOUR!

Five
Please, everybody, look at me!
Today I'm five years old, you see!
And after this, I won't be four,
Not ever, ever, any more!

A Verse for the Night Before a Birthday - M. Meyer Kort
When I have said my evening prayer,
And my clothes are folded on the chair,
And my mother switches off the light,
I'll still be four years old tonight.
But, from the very break of day,
Before the children rise and play,
Before the darkness turns to gold,
Tomorrow, I'll be five years old.
Five kisses when I wake,
Five candles on my cake!
I won't be three or two or one,
For that was when I'd first begun.
Now I'll be five awhile,
And then I'll soon be something else again.

Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne
When I was one,
I had just begun.
When I was two,
I was nearly new.
When I was three,
I was hardly me.
When I was four,
I was not much more.
When I was five,
I was just alive.
But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six
now and forever.

Today You Are Ten - Delora Burrow-Bradish
I can hardly believe,
That today you are ten.
I wish you were still little,
But I cannot pretend.
You have grown to be strong,
Sensitive and kind.
When I see you out playing
I can't believe you are mine.
Talented, athletic, funny and sweet,
You drink a gallon of milk every week!
I can hardly keep up.
You are growing so fast.
Ten years as your mother
Is now a thing of the past.
My prayer? My hope?
My dream for your life?
Love God. Seek His word.
Do what is right.
My heart? My ambition?
My desire everyday?
To love you and train you
To walk in His ways.

Sweet Sixteen
Fifteen years have come and gone
Your sixteenth year begins at dawn
Your life as a child almost complete
A fine young lady we all now meet
So in the days and years to come
Take time to sing and dance and hum
When you get older through life you must run
So while you are young, take time for fun

We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. - Author Unknown

There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear...
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
- Martial

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. - Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. - Chili Davis

Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. - Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990

Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. - Sam Ewing

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. - Jerry M. Wright

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. - Mark Twain

You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.

We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. - Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. - Don Marquis

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. - Charles Schulz

Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. - Dan Bennett

Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. - Truman Capote

Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. - Herbert Asquith

You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience.

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. - Larry Lorenzoni

Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician.

Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. - Jennifer Yane

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. - Tom Wilson

Asked of a lady on her 104th birthday, "What is the best thing about turning 104?" Her reply: "No peer pressure!"