Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander Pope

PLeas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.

Sathya Baba

Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda with all. That is the proper way to celebrate the Birthday.

Bill Cosby

In your 50s, time becomes precious and must not be wasted. Every minute is an excellent opportunity for a good nap. Happy 50th birthday!

Bill Cosby

Like everyone else who makes the mistake of getting older, I begin each day with coffee and obituaries.

Carrie Mae Weems

I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.

Jean-Marie Le Pen was like a man who just had six birthdays in one day.

The... acquisition of the Birthdays chain of stores is compounding what are without doubt the most challenging trading conditions the group has seen in years.

(That weekend) is my birthday weekend. One of my staff reminded me this morning. I've just been so focused on Decatur and Dodge City, I forgot about it.

It gets the parents committed so they don't book their child's birthday party on the day we're going to Tree Tops Park.

Andy Roddick

I wish I didn't have a birthday during this tournament. This has totally blindsided me. I just felt like I would have a pretty good run here.

I think if you're planning a birthday, you plan it when the birthday is. I think it's a great idea to have the family involvement day. They should have held it on the birthday. It should not be an election tool, and that's what it is.

I think he decided to give himself a birthday present.

Shirley Jones

I think Marty was really surprised. He had been complaining all day that nobody had called about his birthday.

He just had a birthday party. His grandchildren spoke and his grandson said how much he has impacted him, especially his business sense.

Shakira

Success happened little by little for me. I tasted the flavor of fame in small doses: I started at 10 years old when I won a music contest; I was performing at birthday parties, company meetings.

Queen Latifah

I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.

Joe Thompson

I didn't have a birthday cake this year,

(Frazer) said all she (got) was a little birthday cake. From the Depression, (Frazer) learned how to spend money wisely.

From now on Liam and I will share -- it's my birthday and his re-birthday I guess.

Ted Williams

Happy Birthday Tommy. We had one for you. Mickey Mantle.

Happy Birthday, and tell Mom and Dylan and Mark I love them and stuff. Hopefully we'll get to see them again.

He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, and that seemed to be working. ... The only thing he wanted was to see his child. He told Kelly he wanted to say goodbye. Obviously we were not going to do that.

W. S. Gilbert

For months you've referred to me as your hero, But it's easy to be brave when I have you to come home to, and hide behind, and hold on to. I wish you the happiest birthday ever... . Let's eat!

God bless my son...and just have a prayer for him today, cause today's his birthday...he would've been 34 today.

We look forward, ... to when Fidel Castro's birthday gives way to the possibility of celebrating democracy in Cuba.

He was so funny, one of those pictures is of my 13th birthday the summer before he was killed.

I got my first pilot lessons for my 16th birthday, ... I was scared the first time I tried it, but I fell in love with it and have been flying off and on ever since.

David Horowitz

If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.

He was a simple guy, a quiet person, always good-natured. On every birthday he would bring me something, like a bouquet of flowers. He sent me something on every holiday. He never forgot me.

He was always the first to learn lyrics to new songs, and he remembered everyone's birthdays and anniversaries. That, plus car license numbers. He knew it all. He would always remind us if an important date was coming up.

He goes off and everyone's just laughing. He makes people feel better. It was this 90-year-old's birthday and he got her a cupcake and wished her happy birthday over the loudspeaker.

Mark Prior

Henry had a great day. I'm glad he had a good day, especially after his birthday.