“My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.”
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 gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've still got it.'”
“My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.”
“I have had fans make me the big picture collages of the photo books I have had fans send me birthday cakes... sing to me on my voicemail. I have had fans flash me. I have had older fans give me their bras and underwear onstage.”
“The day before my 16th birthday I got my guitar.”
“I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.”
“The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.”
“When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.”
“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 often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique.”
“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”
“Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.”
“I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.”
“God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.”
“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.”
“You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.”
“The Queen of Crafts herself, Martha Stewart, and I have the same birthday. I prefer to think it's the glue-gun wielding, perfect-tart-producing Martha and not the copper pan-throwing, jail-going Martha. But I suppose if I am going to share a calendar square with some of Martha, I have to share it with all of Martha.”