The only thing better than singing is more singing. Ella Fitzgerald
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.' Sam Levenson
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am. John Burroughs
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. Plautus
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm. Kurt Vonnegut
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be. Lauren Hutton
The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape. Samuel Johnson
If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same. John Oates
A gift, with a kind countenance, is a double present. Thomas Fuller
I cried on my 18th birthday. I thought 17 was such a nice age. You're young enough to get away with things, but you're old enough, too. Liv Tyler
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. Jean Paul
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old. Mary Schmich
There is still no cure for the common birthday. John Glenn
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does. Victoria Beckham
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. Doug Coupland
New Year's Day is every man's birthday. Charles Lamb
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
Your children need your presence more than your presents. Jesse Jackson