Quotes on My Birthday

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

You are everything that's ever been my favourite thing," she wanted to tell him. "You're my love song, my birthday cake, the sound of ocean waves and French words and a baby's laugh. You're a snow angel, crème brulée, a kaleidoscope filled with glitter. I love you and you'll never catch up, because I've gotten a head start and my heart is racing at light speed.

For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity.

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

The night you gave me my birthday party... you were a young Lieutenant and I was a fragrant phantom, wasn't I? And it was a radiant night, a night of soft conspiracy and the trees agreed that it was all going to be for the best.

Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.

Don't just count your years, make your years count.

Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green sweater and a bunch of stupid toys!" "What were you expecting?" "Real estate!

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.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

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

When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.

If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.'

We are always the same age inside.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.