As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her.
I am a big popcorn fanatic. I love popcorn. In fact one year for my birthday, my husband bought me one of those big popcorn machines like they have in movie theaters.
My mom and my father’s birthday are on the same day.
Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.
I hate my birthday. I don’t like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better.
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.
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
I love photography. My boyfriend’s got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
I trained to be a priest – started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind.
For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.
If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I’m meant to give birth, I will.
If you’re going to do a job, do it right. If you’re going to throw a birthday party, make it amazing. If you’re going to do anything, do it awesome.
I tried to bake a cake for my mother’s birthday – it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
I’m not a birthday person. Maybe because I don’t like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it’ll turn out to be.
When you wake up every day, it’s like a new birthday: it’s a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.
New Year’s Day is every man’s birthday.
Having a birthday cake squashed into your face by young kids? Delicious. I always don a Santa suit at Christmas. Remaining childish is a tremendous state of innocence.
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.
Sinatra invited me once to his birthday party in L.A. I was young, and I felt great about it. But when I got there, the Rat Pack were all in the kitchen laughing their heads off.
With my wife I don’t get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to ‘the best woman a man ever had.’ The waiter joined me.
Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.
