The first memory I have in the world is of death and tears. That is how I would mark the beginning of my life: the way people mark the end of one. My family had gathered at Papa Joe's house because Mam' Grace was slipping away, only I didn't register it that way. For some reason I thought that it was her birthday.
— Charles M. Blow
I wanted Cathy and Irving to actually say 'I do' and be pronounced husband and wife on Feb. 5, which is my mom's birthday.
— Cathy Guisewite
I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.
— Carrie Mae Weems
The first time I performed onstage was at church. Then I formed a rock cover band - Pink Floyd and Joan Jett. We'd play at birthday parties, since it wasn't exactly church material.
— Cailee Spaeny
If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.
— Bruce Barton
Love the giver more than the gift.
— Brigham Young
It turns out I share a birthday with Jose Mourinho. He is exactly 10 years older than me.
— Brendan Rodgers
My policy on cake is pro having it and pro eating it.
— Boris Johnson
One I built when I was a kid, and it was a real miniature of Disneyland. I fell in love with the park when I went there with my parents on my 12th birthday.
— Bobby Sherman
I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I'd go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.
— Blake Anderson
I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo.
— Bindi Irwin
The first glimpse I had of what Mario Batali's friends had described to me as the 'myth of Mario' was on a cold Saturday night in January 2002, when I invited him to a birthday dinner.
— Bill Buford
We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.
— Beyonce Knowles
I was on the train; I did play, but I also played in bars, in the streets, at birthday parties for people who discovered me on the train.
— Benjamin Clementine
I don't set up screenings. I can barely plan my kid's birthday party.
— Becky Albertalli
I like to keep my birthday very relaxed.
— Barun Sobti
I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn't see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
— Barry White
New Year's Day is every man's birthday.
— Charles Lamb
The main prank that we play with props is for people's birthdays. The special effects people will put a little explosive in the cake so it blows up in their face - that's always fun to play on a guest star, or one of the trainees or someone who's new.
— Catherine Bell
My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.
— Cardi B
Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
— Buddy Valastro
I grew up doing all that stuff because I was obsessed with the '50s. I had sock hops for birthday parties. So I've always done The Twist and stuff. It was pretty natural and, with my parents doing it all the time, I'd just copy them. Not very pretty.
— Brittany Snow
The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
— Brian Tracy
All my favorite stars, my family and my friends are here. I'm having the happiest birthday that an 18-year-old girl could ever have.
— Brandy Norwood
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
— Booth Tarkington
Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
— Bobby McFerrin
My son had his eighth birthday recently and we had a chance to borrow the film and show it to all of his friends that was at his birthday party and they loved it. I was a little nervous. I said they might not even like it, and say his daddy's movie is wack, but they loved it.
— Blair Underwood
As I approached my 95th birthday, I was burdened to write a book that addressed the epidemic of 'easy believism.' There is a mindset today that if people believe in God and do good works, they are going to Heaven.
— Billy Graham
I came out at a very early age. I sat my mom down at my 12th birthday party and told her in front of my friends. She said, 'Baby, mama already knows, and I'm going to love you regardless.' Once I got my mom's support, there was nothing else I needed.
— Big Freedia
To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.
— Bernard Baruch
Washington's birthday is worthy of celebration - he is one of the greatest men in history. But Washington himself would likely have seen celebration of the office of the presidency itself as monarchic in nature.
— Ben Shapiro
My 3rd birthday party was 'Funny Girl' themed.
— Beanie Feldstein
Since the day I got married, I never got to plan my birthday.
If I went out to play basketball with other kids, when I came home I'd shower and go right back to the computer again. If there was a birthday party or a family activity, I would take my laptop and spend the whole day there.
— Bad Bunny
For my 9th birthday, my only wish was to eat like a farmer boy. I had devoured 'The Little House on the Prairie' book series and wanted to be like Almanzo Wilder, the protagonist of 'Farmer Boy,' one of the later installments in the 'Little House' series.
— Charles Best
I hate birthdays. I hate birthday parties. I hate them. I don't know what it is, anybody's only got to come wafting near me with a piece of cake with a candle on and I break out in hives.
— Cat Deeley
Ask any teenage girl to describe her perfect bedroom, and you'll get answers like 'a room with a private phone line, a place to hang out with friends, and for it to be way-cool and funky.' Ask parents the same question, and 'a locked door that opens on their 21st birthday' might top the list!
— Candice Olson
My mother always bought our birthday gifts.
— Bruce Eric Kaplan
I get uncomfortable when people give me presents and watch me open them. I don't have birthday parties, because the idea of a group of people singing and looking at me while I'm blowing out candles gives me hives.
— Brit Marling
Every year, I think you earn the right to eat cake on your birthday.
— Bret Hart
You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
— Brad Garrett
I'd be happy to live till 80 as long as I was comfortable and in good health. Mind you, ask me again on the eve of my 80th birthday. Even so, I hope we don't all start living to be 120. I'm not sure I'd cope with another 60 years.
— Bonnie Tyler
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
— Bob Hope
If there's one thing I really want for my birthday, that is for the mining company not to mine my daddy's reserve.
I never missed a birthday. I never missed a school play. We carpooled. And the greatest compliment I can ever get is not about my career or performance or anything; it's when people say, 'You know, your girls are great.' That's the real thing for me.
— Billy Crystal
It has to do a lot more than just twerking. It's feel good music; it makes people have a good time. It doesn't matter what type of situation they're in, we bounce all around New Orleans. Weddings, birthday parties, funerals. The whole nine yards, and it's a happy music, it turns people from a frown to a happy smile.
Yes, I grew up with guns. For my 16th birthday, in fact, I received a .357 instead of a car. But there was nothing playful about them; they were tools. My parents went through a back-to-the-land phase. Most of our vegetables and fruits came from our own garden.
— Benjamin Percy
I had a 'Cats' phase, where I did lots of overturned furniture and trash cans. I asked for a fog machine for my birthday.
— Ben Platt
I had Hallowe'en parties every year, as it was my birthday five days before. My parents would actually put prosthetic noses on, and my dad would wear a top-hat and tails, put on a fake curly moustache, and hold a pipe.
— Bat for Lashes
My wife and I love to travel, so if we don't have work on either her or my birthday, we definitely travel.
