Quotes for Birthdays

• The first fact about the celebration of birthdays is that it is a good way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive. ~G.K. Chesterton

• A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author unknown

• There will be many loving thoughts hovering around you like Angels to‑day. ~Birthday letter quoted in J.R. Macduff

• Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson

• [H]e's younger every birth‑day than he was the year before. ~Charles Dickens

• Birthdays would be excellent institutions were it only for the pleasant little inflation they bring. ~Mary Wright Sewell

• We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author unknown

• There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn

• Birthdays! What music in the world! In these unresting times, when nothing intellectual, economic, social, political, seems stable; when customs and traditions hoary with age are mixed with explosive elements, this oldest of institutions is not in danger of yielding to destructive forces. ~J.R. Macduff

• Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis