“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
Birthdays are milestones disguised as parties. These quotes capture the joy, nostalgia, and mild existential crisis that can all show up when you add another number. Good for cards, toasts, or just sitting with the strangeness of getting older.
“I left school on my 15th birthday.”
“The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.”
“I left school on my 15th birthday.”
“The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.”
“When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”
“On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.”
“Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible.”
“As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.”
“You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'”
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.”
“My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.”
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
“With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.”
“The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.”
“How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?”
“You know, we'd just had a birthday, he was... you know, he still had a future out of him, and all I can is he was just one of the most beautiful people in the world... a very gifted man, and it's a loss to the world, not just for us.”