The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.
Time has a wonderful way of weeding out the trivial.
Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.
Fifty years old, 212 fights, and I'm still pretty.
What, start at this! when sixty years have spread. Their grey experience o'er thy hoary head? Is this the all observing age could gain? Or hast thou known the world so long in vain?
It does not seem a year Since last we sent to you Our wishes for your special day And all that you would do.
Then when you think in years to come Of Birthdays long ago You may remember fondly How much we love you so.
If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.
For my birthday this year, my girlfriends - who knew I'd just inherited my dad's turntable - gave me a carton of albums like "Blue Kentucky Girl," by Emmylou Harris, and "Off the Wall," by Michael Jackson. It's all stuff we grew up with. I mean, you can't have a music collection without Prince's "Purple Rain" - it just can't be done!
When I was young and it was someone's birthday, I didn't have the money to buy nice presents so I would take my mom's camera and make a movie parody for whoever's birthday it was. When I'd show it them, they'd die laughing. That reaction was a high for me, and I loved that feeling.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake?
I do like to shock and surprise people. When it's all in good fun, of course.
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
A birthday:-and now a day that rose With much of hope, with meaning rife- A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The middle day of human life.
If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.
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.
I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
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