Birthday Quotes

Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,
I was so happy since the hour I was born.
- Anonymous

Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
- Helen Hayes

'Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree's incln'd.
- Alexander Pope

When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
- James M. Barrie

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow.
- Margaret Fuller

Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? - John Heywood
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
- Edith Wharton

Most of 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

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

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
- Ellen Glasgow

I remember, I remember
The roses, red and white,
The violets, and the lily-cups,
Those flowers made of light!
The lilacs, where the robin built,
And where my brother set
The laburmum on his birthday,-
The tree is living yet.
- Thomas Hood

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
- Franz Kafka

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing,...
- Andre Gide

My heart is like a singing bird...
Because the birthday of my life
Is come, my love is come to me.
- Christine Rossetti

"I mean, what is an un-birthday present?"
"A present given when it isn't your birthday, of course."
Alice considered a little. "I like birthday presents best," she said at last.
"You don't know what you're talking about!" cried Humpty Dumpty. "How many days are there in a year?"
"Three hundred and sixty-five," said Alice.
"And how many birthdays have you?"
"One."
- Lewis Carroll

I want to be an artist
To paint pictures just for you,
So when each birthday comes around,
I can send you quite a few.
- Anonymous

There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
- William Shakespeare

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

You'd scarce expect one of my age
To speak in public on the stage,
And if I chance to fall below
Demosthenes or Cicero,
Don't view me with a critic's eye,
But pass my imperfections by.
Large streams from little fountains flow,
Tall oaks from little acorns grow.
- David Everett

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
- Virginia Woolf

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