Famous Quotes & Sayings

I've forgotten the birthdays of everyone close to me. I have forgotten to pay bills, file tax returns on time, go to meetings, and, every week, I forget to put the bins out. But I have never forgotten I want my lunch.

Hansie Cronje

I missed him the most this birthday but maybe I'm just tired,

Erma Bombeck

A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.

Florence Welch

I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.

Flip Wilson

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.

Fidel Castro

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Fiona Apple

The age thing really bugs me. Do people have more of a right to not like what I say because I'm 19?

Henry Louis Gates

I first learned that there were black people living in some place called other than the United States in the western hemisphere when I was a very little boy, and my father told me that when he was a boy about my age, he wanted to be an Episcopal priest, because he so admired his priest, a black man from someplace called Haiti.

Henry Miller

It was only in my forties that I started feeling young.

Cate Blanchett

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

Cate Blanchett

I've an enormous respect for my mother who at the age of 39 raised three children, and I grew up with my grandmother in the household. And so it was a really strong household of women - my poor brother! It was great growing up with so many generations of women.

Cate Blanchett

If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate.

Christine Maggiore

Predictably, it went well, ... None of this is making us happy. We had a pleasant meeting with kind people, and now I'm just focusing on the treasure hunt for Charlie's birthday this Saturday.

Mikhail Gorbachev

A birthday party will be a modest one, and I shall celebrate it with relatives and friends.

They still have a plaque on the wall saying Dean and I lived there and never paid any rent. But the truth is we often put on shows for birthday parties and weddings for hotel guests. That helped keep the wolf from the door.

This is the 250th birthday celebration for our namesake. The least we can do is celebrate.

The whole family was out in the country, celebrating her birthday.

It's not just a birthday party to commemorate 100 years in June 2006. It is a year-long celebration about the last 100 years, and looking into the future to the next 100 years.

Mandy Moore

There's a huge part of my life that I've skipped over, but I'm fine with it. I've maybe been drunk once or twice in my life. In fact, my 21st birthday was in Tokyo, and everyone around me was drunk, but I was sober.

Art Buchwald

This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday, ... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.

Albert Hofmann

This is a wonderful birthday party we are having. One could say it is a consciousness-expanding experience without LSD.

This is not a happy birthday fund for the Commission. This money was held in trust for ratepayers, and should be returned to ratepayers.

Janet Evanovich

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.

Evan Rachel Wood

I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.

Eva Herzigova

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.

Mindy Kaling

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

Mika Brzezinski

I was fired at the pinnacle of my career, on my 39th birthday. And in the year that followed, I learned that there are many psychological phases of being 'let go.'

Haile Gebrselassie

Age for me is just a number.

James Hillman

All we can do when we think of kids today is think of more hours of school, earlier age at the computer, and curfews. Who would want to grow up in that world?

Kristin Kreuk

When I was in elementary school, I used to write letters to myself. I'd write letters and go 'Dear Kristen-at-16-years-old, happy birthday. I hope you're doing something.'

Milton Friedman

Now that I'm 60, every morning I look in the mirror and say, "I don't know who you are, stranger, but I'm gonna shave you anyway".

Katherine Jenkins

I'm over the moon to be involved in the 'Doctor Who' Christmas special. I can't quite believe it as it's a part of the family tradition at the Jenkins household. I heard the news that I got the role on my 30th birthday and it was the best birthday present ever.

Keith Thibodeaux

Lucy took care of me on the set, and made sure that none of the crew cussed around me. She also had birthday parties for me and made sure that they were well attended.