My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'
— Awkwafina
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.
— Ausonius
This is a wonderful way to celebrate an 80th birthday... I wanted to be 65 again, but they wouldn't let me - Homeland Security.
— Art Buchwald
United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'
— Antonio Guterres
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame.
— Annette Funicello
I started performing non-professionally at birthday parties and family gatherings doing 'Saturday Night Live' impressions at four. Then I started for real at seven.
— Annaleigh Ashford
If Congress can move President's Day, Columbus Day and, alas, Martin Luther King's Birthday celebration for the convenience of shoppers, shouldn't they at least consider moving Election Day for the convenience of voters?
— Andrew Young
I'm the type who minds my own business and am not keen on giving interviews on my mom's birthday, or my dog's birthday.
— Andrea Jeremiah
I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.
— Amy Purdy
I'm most comfortable in my birthday suit.
— Amanda Seyfried
I can remember the three restaurant experiences of my childhood. All I wanted to do on my birthday was to go to the Automat in New York... but I don't know if you consider that a real restaurant.
— Alice Waters
We have a host of English teachers in the family. My mum is an English teacher, and so are my dad, my aunt and my uncle. I have grown up with family writing competitions, and I can't remember a birthday or Christmas present that didn't include books.
— Alexandra Adornetto
If you believe in romance, and if you believe in marriage, you also have to believe in divorce. It's like, with 'Getting On,' a lot of people say, 'I don't want to watch that. It's so dark.' But you can't just want to go to weddings and children's birthday parties. You've got to witness it all.
— Alex Borstein
My father was a shaman. He told me that time doesn't exist. He didn't use a clock. He didn't know when my birthday was.
— Alessandro Michele
That's the great thing about New Year's, you get to be a year older. For me, that wasn't such a joke, because my birthday was always around this time. When I was a kid, my father used to tell me that everybody was celebrating my birthday. That's what the trees are all about.
— Alan King
Seven years into writing a novel, I started to lose my mind. My thirty-seventh birthday had just come and gone, the end of 2008 was approaching, and I was constantly aware of how little I had managed to accomplish.
— Akhil Sharma
I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.
— Adele
Every night, I was read to. Every Friday, we were taken to the library. I always received at least one book for my birthday. I have a few of them yet. Early on, I had my own collection of books. I loved to read. Still do.
— Avi
Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same.
— Audrey Hepburn
Every birthday is a gift. Every day is a gift.
— Aretha Franklin
I had a birthday party with my family and friends at a house, and Chipotle catered. It was beautiful.
— Ansel Elgort
Some people won't go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
— Anne Lamott
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
— Anita Baker
Most people tell you there are certain moments you should celebrate in life: for example, the weekend coming, so you should party on a Friday. Or your birthday or New Year's Eve. But what if you're excited about being alive every day? Can't you be in that celebratory state every moment you're not dead?
— Andrew W.K.
For my fifth birthday, I got a small tennis racket. That's how I started.
— Ana Ivanovic
I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips.
— Amy Poehler
I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids' houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I'd find in their refrigerators.
— Amanda Marshall
By the time I was seven, I did a sonnet at Shakespeare's Globe theatre for Shakespeare's birthday because my dad had been at the first season of the Globe and was friends with the artistic director. Somehow, that lead to me doing a sonnet!
— Alfred Enoch
I'm in a difficult position in the sense that, preposterous as this might sound, I don't like being the centre of attention. I get up on stage every night and play songs, but I almost feel the songs are the centre of attention. I don't like opening my birthday presents in front of people, either.
— Alex Turner
I've never hosted a party in my life, not even my own birthday party. I'd feel really uncomfortable saying, 'Hey everybody, let's celebrate me!' But I'm not antisocial. I don't hate people.
— Alessia Cara
This is going to make me sound awful, but I was 18 when I took my first flight because the Prince of Brunei flew Mis-Teeq over to play at his birthday party! I was in business class being fed amazing food. I got over my fear pretty quickly.
— Alesha Dixon
I have a strong memory of the day I was told that my father had a weak heart and that he had to go to the hospital. He died when I was nine years old on the same day that Franklin Roosevelt died; it was his 45th birthday.
— Alan J. Heeger
I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day.
— Aimee Bender
Mum loves me being famous! She is so excited and proud, as she had me so young and couldn't support me, so I am living her dream, it's sweeter for both of us. It's her 40th birthday soon and I'm going to buy her 40 presents.
I thought it would be cool to Skype with fans on their birthday and spend, like, a half-hour with them. I did a couple of two-hour Skypes. I just hang out with them and play songs and stuff. At first they're kind of shy, but after a while they open up. I've had a lot of people tell me I'm doing something no one has ever done before.
— Austin Mahone
As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday.
— Ashley Jensen
In Bollywood, birthday celebrations are usual and very carefree.
— Arbaaz Khan
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution.
— Annie Dillard
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.
I just remember celebrating my 18th birthday at home, so that was a big party.
— Angelique Kerber
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
— Andrei Codrescu
I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday.
— Amy Weber
I was only 16 when I was selected for 'Madrasapattinam.' I celebrated my 17th birthday on the set of the film. That was the first time I had travelled to India, and it was a rollercoaster ride. I soon fell in love with the country.
— Amy Jackson
I am 23, the year of the iron birthday, the gate of darkness. I am ill.
— Allen Ginsberg
I think football saves many people. It can give you a life of luxury, but people don't see all the effort that goes in behind the scenes. That might mean not seeing your family or missing your mother's birthday; many players are so focused that they miss the birth of their children.
— Alexis Sanchez
My mum likes to remind me of the birthday treat I asked for when I was just 13... and that was for them to hire a stretch limo for my birthday when we travelled to L.A.
— Alex Hirschi
I first picked up a guitar when I was ten years old; my parents surprised me with it for my tenth birthday. I started taking lessons when I was thirteen, but only for a few months, and then I just kept teaching myself.
I've been a Nick Cave fan since the early '80s when he was part of The Birthday Party thing singing Australian self-destructive rock band and I've always followed his work and loved it.
— Aleksandar Hemon
On every birthday, I ask my wife, 'What would you like this year?' and her instant reply is, 'Diamonds! Diamonds! Diamonds!' I'm always living in hope that one day she'll say she just wants me!
— Akshay Kumar
When I was a teenager, the actors I was really into were Mickey Rourke and Sean Penn. I saw 'Rumble Fish' on my 16th birthday, and around the same time, it was 'Falcon and the Snowman' and 'Bad Boys' from Sean Penn.
— Aidan Gillen
