Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Most of us 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 Staughton Lynd
Remember
World
Us
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Flip Wilson
Teacher
Birthday
Childhood
" I definitely break out karaoke when my friends have birthday parties. "
Josh Groban
Birthday
Karaoke
Out
" We'll take the cake with the red cherry on top. "
Navjot Singh Sidhu
Birthday
Top
Take
" Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do. "
Avi
Birthday
Book
Friday
" In college, I wrote newspaper articles and songs. Then, on my 21st birthday, I sold my first book. It was a nonfiction book about women pirates - 'Pirates in Petticoats.' After that, I was a book writer for good. "
Jane Yolen
Book
College
Birthday
" My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game. "
Eric Bristow
Birthday
Bought
Game
" I like to keep my birthday very relaxed. "
Barun Sobti
Very
Birthday
Keep
" May it be long before the people of the United States shall cease to take a deep and pervading interest in the Fourth of July, as the birthday of our national life, or the event which then occurred shall be subordinated to any other of our national history. "
Samuel Freeman Miller
Deep
People
History
" I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer. "
George Ezra
Blue
Good
People
" My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. "
Loretta Lynn
Birthday
Sat
Present
" 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. "
Mindy Kaling
Happy
Believe
Birthday
" I like to go to anybody else's birthday, and if I'm invited I'm a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don't care. "
Mikhail Baryshnikov
Celebrate
Never
Birthday
" Just before my 16th birthday, Natalie Dormer said to me, 'As soon as you turn 16, you're going to work adult hours. People will try take advantage of you, so it's important not to be a pushover.' "
Sophie Turner
Work
Said
Birthday
" I wanted to be the next Dana Carvey. This was my ultimate goal. If I ever cut into a birthday cake and made a wish, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I threw a coin into a fountain, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' If I saw a shooting star, I would wish to be on 'Saturday Night Live.' "
Jimmy Fallon
Cake
Live
Night
" I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years. "
Bonnie Tyler
Hope
Mind
Live
" I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me. "
Billy Crystal
You
Birthday
Great
" The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. "
Denis Waitley
Birthday
You
Responsibility
" The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday. "
Rick Springfield
Guitar
Got
First
" When I was six, my best friend's parents bought him a piano. My mother noticed that every time I would go to his house, the first thing I would say to him was 'Levester' - His name was Levester - I said, 'Levester, can I go play your piano?' So, on my 7th birthday, my parents bought me a piano. "
Herbie Hancock
Mother
Best
Birthday
" The summer before my third year of law school, I worked at a law firm in Washington, D.C. I turned 25 that July, and on my birthday, my father happened to be playing in a local jazz club called Pigfoot and invited me to join him. I hadn't spent a birthday with him since I was 3, but I agreed. "
Deval Patrick
Birthday
Law
Me
" I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday. "
Peter O'Toole
Eyes
Front
Before
" Almost any game with any ball is a good game. "
Robert Staughton Lynd
Almost
Good
Game
" I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music. "
Barry White
School
Birthday
Music
" I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward. "
Prince Royce
Birthday
Work
Christmas
" It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday. "
Dominic Thiem
Match
Pleasure
Big
" When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. "
Gloria Stuart
Thought
Because
Little
" I started running around my 30th birthday. I wanted to lose weight; I didn't anticipate the serenity. Being in motion, suddenly my body was busy and so my head could work out some issues I had swept under a carpet of wine and cheese. Good therapy, that's a good run. "
Michael Weatherly
Busy
Fitness
Good
" Friends and family do not believe you write fiction. They truly believe that every word you write is either autobiographical or based on them. I once had a character say that she never wanted to be invited to another children's birthday party, and I never received another children's birthday party invitation ever again. "
Liane Moriarty
Family
Birthday
Character
" I remember, for my birthday once, we all dressed up as Spice Girls. I was Scary. "
Hannah John-Kamen
Scary
Birthday
Remember
" When I was 11, I had an Ugly Sister birthday party. All my idea. Most girls want to be a fairy or a princess, but there I am with beauty spots and fur and fluorescent pink kiss-curls. "
Lucy Punch
Pink
Birthday
I Am