Birthday

A birthday is an annual celebration of the date on which a person was born.

See also Growing old.

Quotes

Happy and blessed birthday to every lover, and may love bring us together, and may the world hear us.
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
Today we celebrate and light candles, renewing the days of happiness and love within us, and we converse in sweet, pure, and delightful affection, drawing the present to the days of our past. Joy on your birthday, my dear, may you always be in my heart.
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
Today is a special day, it’s my birthday with my life partner
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
Every year you are the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me,” and “May you always be my support in this world, my darling.”
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
On this day, you became my life, my hope, my destiny in this world, my refuge, and the love of my life. Every year, you are the most beautiful thing that has ever happened to me.
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
If I could go back in time a thousand times, I would choose you every time, because every beat of my heart cries out your name.
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah

If I had to choose between you and my eyes, I would choose you because you are my eyes through which I see the world.

- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
- Abdelnasser Abdelfattah He celebrates his marriage anniversary

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

I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
- Ovid

- Happy birthday, Alexander," Magnus murmured.

"Thanks for remembering," Alec whispered back.

- Cassandra Clare

- And I rose

In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

Dylan Thomas

- these nights we hear the horses running in the rain

it stops and the moon comes out and we are still here the leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passed smell of ginger flowers slips through the dark house down near the sea the slow heart of the beacon flashes

- W.S. Merwin
these nights we hear the horses running in the rain

it stops and the moon comes out and we are still here the leaks in the roof go on dripping after the rain has passed smell of ginger flowers slips through the dark house down near the sea the slow heart of the beacon flashes

- W.S. Merwin

Romance novels are birthday cake and life is often peanut butter and jelly. I think everyone should have lots of delicious romance novels lying around for those times when the peanut butter of life gets stuck to the roof of your mouth.
- Janet Evanovich

Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good.
- Maya Angelou

All the world's a birthday cake, / So take a piece but not too much.
- George Harrison lyric from the song It's All Too Much on the Yellow Submarine album (1969)

You who wish to celebrate a birthday, inquire first who was born. One’s true birthday is when one enters into the Eternal Being which shines forever without birth or death.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi, quoted from Arun Shourie, Preparing: For Death. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2020. ISBN 935305978X, 9789353059781

Of all days, on one’s birthday one should mourn one’s fall (into samsara). To celebrate it as a festival is like adorning and glorifying a corpse. To seek one’s Self and merge in it is wisdom.
- Sri Ramana Maharshi, quoted from Arun Shourie, Preparing: For Death. Penguin Random House India Private Limited, 2020. ISBN 935305978X, 9789353059781

Birthdays weigh heavily on one's self-esteem. Early in the morning especially.
- Erich Maria Remarque in Three Comrades, 1936

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 70.

A birthday:—and now a day that rose
With much of hope, with meaning rife—
A thoughtful day from dawn to close:
The middle day of human life.
- Jean Ingelow, A Birthday Walk.

As this auspicious day began the race
Of ev'ry virtue join'd with ev'ry grace;
May you, who own them, welcome its return,
Till excellence, like yours, again is born.
The years we wish, will half your charms impair;
The years we wish, the better half will spare;
The victims of your eyes will bleed no more,
But all the beauties of your mind adore.
- Jeffrey, Miscellanies, To a Lady on her Birthday.

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:
Your birthday as my own to me is dear.
Blest and distinguished days! which we should prize
The first, the kindest bounty of the skies.
But yours gives most; for mine did only lend
Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.
- Martial, Epigrams (c. 80-104 AD), Book IX, Epistle 53.

My birthday!—what a different sound
That word had in my youthful ears;
And how each time the day comes round,
Less and less white its mark appears.
- Thomas Moore, My Birthday.