Your birthday happens each year on exactly the same day. It is a solid thing, a dependable thing, a measure of your life broken down into 365 subunits. For a Leaper, it is a bit different. For us, the basic assumption is shattered from the beginning.
— Rick Tumlinson
Lesley Gore's part-time field was pop singer, and in her brief but urgent prime, she was the Queen of Teen Angst. She endured heartbreak as a birthday girl betrayed by her beau in 'It's My Party,' savored revenge in the sequel 'Judy's Turn to Cry' and belted the proto-feminist anthem 'You Don't Own Me.'
— Richard Corliss
If I have the power to post 'Happy Birthday' on someone's Facebook page and make them feel really good, it feels really good to make other people feel really good. I love it. I'm a huge Facebook and Twitter person. And I love talking to my fans. It's fun.
— Rebecca Mader
I'm not a birthday person. Maybe because I don't like to build expectations around that one day. You never know how it'll turn out to be.
— Ranbir Kapoor
Less than two weeks before my 34th birthday, I bought pots. Most people were amazed that I did not previously own pots, but that was before I explained that I had never used my oven, and used my stovetop for my dishrack.
— Rachel Sklar
My poor kids have accepted that being dropped off late to birthday parties, practices, and yes, school, is just part of the large family package.
— Rachel Campos-Duffy
I know that might sound silly coming from someone my age, but I remember on my 14th birthday having a crisis like my mom should be having. I kept thinking that I was getting older, and I haven't really accomplished anything. I remember thinking that I better accomplish something real soon.
— Q'orianka Kilcher
I'm a big fan of Kurt Cobain. I put a picture of him holding a gun on my Instagram for his birthday. He's definitely one of my favorite rock artists.
— Prodigy
Having a Mary Poppins-themed birthday party when I was 5 - all my friends went in dresses, and I went as a chimney sweep. I was a real tomboy.
— Poppy Delevingne
I can still remember the afternoon, on my 15th birthday, when I opened up 'The Virgin and the Gypsy,' D.H. Lawrence's novella, in my tiny cell in boarding school, and whole worlds of possibility opened out that I had never guessed existed. The language was on fire and sang of liberation.
— Pico Iyer
I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.
— Peter O'Toole
I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.
— Pete Rose
My first paying job might have been doing a play, actually. My mom paid me to dress up as a flounder at my sister's 'Little Mermaid' - themed birthday party when I was little.
— Paul Dano
I am a birthday person. I am not modest about birthdays.
— Parineeti Chopra
In 1980, shortly before my 11th birthday, I wrote my first essay in English.
— Pankaj Mishra
Youth has no age.
— Pablo Picasso
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
— Oprah Winfrey
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday.
— Rick Springfield
Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom.
— Rene Russo
I always try to work on my birthday.
— Rashami Desai
There is one person who sends me three cards every year. One on New Year's, one for my birthday and the third that marks the anniversary of my flight into space.
— Rakesh Sharma
For my 21st birthday party, I had a 'Strictly'-themed fancy dress.
— Rachel Riley
I tried to bake a cake for my mother's birthday - it took me four hours. It was terrible, and I cried for three days.
— Rachael Ray
My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.
I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward.
— Prince Royce
When you wake up every day, it's like a new birthday: it's a new chance to be great again and make great decisions.
— Poo Bear
Any time women come together with a collective intention, it's a powerful thing. Whether it's sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.
— Phylicia Rashad
We've all seen those spoiled little brats that end up being given everything and on their 17th birthday get a Ferrari. That whole thing I just can't bear it.
— Peter Jones
I was fired by 'America's Next Top Model' on my birthday.
— Paulina Porizkova
I often imagine what it would be like if my father were still here to mark his 100th birthday, if Alzheimer's hadn't clawed away years, possibilities, hopes. What would he think of all the commemorations and celebrations?
— Patti Davis
If someone close to me forgets my birthday, I am heartbroken.
The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?
— Pamela Druckerman
It takes a long time to become young.
Facebook has gone from a nice-and-boring social network to becoming an identity layer of the web. It is where nearly a billion people are depositing the artifacts of civilization in the 21st century - photos, videos, and birthday wishes.
— Om Malik
What makes 'Maybach Music V' so special was, of course, I put the album out celebrating my daughter's birthday as well, and DeJ Loaf is her favorite artist. So 'Maybach Music V,' I wanted a real airy type of feel. Just a real slow vibe to it that's also going to surprise my daughter. So that's real special.
— Rick Ross
I get letters constantly from all over the world, telephone calls from America, Brazil, Australia, all over, especially on my birthday. A family? I have a huge international family. That's all I need.
— Renata Tebaldi
I want to feel pampered and special on my birthday.
I'm a Virgo and I'm more - I don't want to say 'negative' - but I'm the girl who thinks no one's coming to my birthday party, no one's buying my clothes, no one's reading my book, no one's watching my show - that's just how I think.
— Rachel Zoe
My life is better with every year of living it.
— Rachel Maddow
I often go to bed in my birthday suit. But I like teddies and cute little undies that match. I like a sexy bra and panty set, or little shorts.
— Queen Latifah
Aged six, I sailed from South Africa to England by steam ship with my family. It was a three-week journey. I remember crying on my birthday when I didn't get the enormous teddy bear that was for sale in the ship's shop but, aside from that, I had a wonderful time.
— Prue Leith
I like spending time with my family and friends on my birthday.
— Prabhas
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
— Plautus
I'm not big on dark chocolate, but I do have a sweet tooth, so it gets me in trouble. I love warm chocolate chip cookies with ice cream. Then there's this chocolate pie my mom makes for me every year for my birthday. She's been making it since I was younger, and there's nothing like it. It's really so, so good!
— Phillip Phillips
As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.
— Pete Wentz
My first recognition of age setting in was exactly on my 36th birthday. I have no idea why, on this day of all days, I looked in the mirror and realized my face no longer looked young.
The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
— Paris Hilton
I count the weeks and days before my birthday.
I don't go into a fight mad. I go into a fight like it's my birthday. I love what I'm doing.
— Paige VanZant
I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days.
— Otis Blackwell
