Birthday Quotes

“Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.”

-- Bobby McFerrin

“Mattresses! Beautiful! Let's go buy a couple of mattresses. Give 'em to people for their birthday.”

-- Lawrence Tierney

“The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.”

-- Paris Hilton

“I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.”

-- Bindi Irwin

“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”

-- Charles Lamb

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

-- Art Buchwald

“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.”

-- Audrey Hepburn

“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”

-- Jean Paul

“I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I'll probably be given jewelry instead.”

-- Susan Orlean

“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”

-- John Burroughs