quotes about Happy Birthday
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A birthday is just another day where you go to work and people give you love. Age is just a state of mind, and you are as old as you think you are. You have to count your blessings and be happy.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
He not busy being born is busy dying.
-- Bob DylanSource : "It's Alright, Ma (I'm Only Bleeding)" (song) (1965)
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You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
-- Bob Hope -
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
-- Buddy Valastro -
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The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.
-- Carlos Castaneda -
Youth is a disease from which we all recover.
-- Dorothy Fuldheim -
You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.
-- Ethel Barrymore -
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
-- Franz Kafka -
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Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
-- Gabriel Byrne -
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
-- George Bernard Shaw -
First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.
-- George Burns -
We are always the same age inside.
-- Gertrude SteinSource : "The American Treasury, 1455-1955". Book edited by Clifton Fadiman, p. 946, 1955.
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When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
-- Gloria Stuart -
I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
-- Henri Frederic Amiel -
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
-- Jane FondaSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Twenty-five, he was. Twenty-five tomorrow. Some years the snow had melted for his birthday, but not this year, and so it had been a long winter full of cows.
-- Jane Smiley -
The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.
-- Janet Fitch -
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.
-- John Oates -
If a girl says not to get her a birthday present that means get me a birthday present and make sure it's jewelry.
-- Kami GarciaSource : Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (2010). “Beautiful Creatures”, p.296, Penguin UK
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
-- Lucille Ball -
Happiness is a choice. You grieve, you stomp your feet, you pick yourself up and choose to be happy.
-- Lucy Lawless -
Birthdays could be such a bummer when you were older than the country you lived in.
-- Lynsay SandsSource : Nancy Martin, Lynsay Sands (2015). “A Quick Bite”, p.62, Harlequin
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Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.
-- Mark Twain -
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A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.
-- Muhammad Ali -
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
-- Oscar Wilde -
One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
-- Oscar Wilde -
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
-- Ovid -
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Happy birthday,†she said. “And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake.
-- Rachel Caine -
Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson -
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.'
-- Sam LevensonSource : Sam Levenson (2016). “In One Era and Out the Other: A Life's Journey”, p.5, Open Road Media
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
-- Sammy Hagar -
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It is a peculiarity of knitters that they chronically underestimate the amount of time it takes to knit something. Birthday on Saturday? No problem. Socks are small. Never mind that the average sock knit out of sock-weight yarn contains about 17,000 stitches. Never mind that you need two of them. (That's 34,000 stitches, for anybody keeping track.) Socks are only physically small. By stitch count, they are immense.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPheeSource : Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (2012). “At Knit's End: Meditations for Women Who Knit Too Much”, p.17, Storey Publishing
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When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too.
-- Stephanie Pearl-McPhee -
Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young.
-- Theodore Roosevelt -
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
-- Tom Wilson -
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God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.
-- Voltaire -
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
-- William Shakespeare -
If we are not happy and joyous at this season, for what other season shall we wait and for what other time shall we look?
-- Abdu'l-Bahá