I've been singing since I could talk. I started playing the piano when I was about 5 or 6. I picked up the guitar on my 20th birthday.
— Grace Potter
When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th.
— Gloria Stuart
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
— Giada De Laurentiis
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.
— George Harrison
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed.
— Gene Tierney
Nicole Richie invited me to her birthday party, and it was at Michael Jackson's Neverland!
— Gaby Hoffmann
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
— Florence Welch
You are only part of the film industry if you are doing well, let me tell you. You will be invited to parties and flowers will reach you on your birthday. When you are not doing well, you are really an outcast.
— Farah Khan
In the Mexican culture, we never miss a baptism, a birthday, a baby shower, a wedding shower, a wedding. You must show up. Otherwise, you'll be in big trouble.
— Eva Longoria
I did not have a normal life. I'd be training when my sister would be at birthday parties and sleepovers. I finished high school by correspondence, basically working two full-time jobs. The last years were very, very tough. But I was willing to do that. It's all about sacrifice.
— Eugenie Bouchard
I can put my legs behind my head and sing 'Happy Birthday.' Because that's something that me and my friends used to do when we were in gymnastics class as kids, and I can still do it. I was doing it since I was 8 and 9. They used to call me Gumby. Very bendy.
— Emmy Rossum
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
— Ellen Glasgow
On my fourth or fifth birthday, a guitar was given to me, and I made a new friend. A very loud friend.
— Eliot Sumner
Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
— Ed Koch
Being a young actor, I remember missing out on summers, birthday parties, and school trips through high school because I was filming. There are so many things that you have to sacrifice and give up for it.
— Dylan Everett
I can't make eye contact when people sing 'Happy Birthday' to me.
— Dove Cameron
I filed a brief as a friend of the court in the U. of Michigan to keep affirmative action at the U. of Michigan, which I attended the law school. And I was one of the original sponsors of making the Martin Luther King birthday a federal holiday.
— Dick Gephardt
At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.
— Goran Ivanisevic
To me, full-time mothering felt like way too much and yet not nearly enough. Lost in a landslide of diapers, birthday parties, and others' needs, I ached to reestablish myself.
— Glennon Doyle Melton
I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he's made of sugar.
— George Saunders
I'm good in summer. My birthday is in summer. I don't like it when it's too hot, but, you know, blue skies, I think people genuinely loosen up a bit, and it's nicer.
— George Ezra
For my 50th birthday, I got ahold of a new print of 'Saturday Night Fever.' I see it much more as a tough coming-of-age movie than as a disco story.
— Gene Siskel
Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.
— Gabriel Byrne
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish.
— Flip Wilson
Did you know you're supposed to soap and scrub for as long as it takes to sing 'Happy Birthday' twice?
— Faith Salie
On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections.
— Eva Herzigova
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
— Erma Bombeck
I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged.
— Emma Watson
I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes.
— Ellen DeGeneres
I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
— E. Joseph Cossman
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
— Dr. Seuss
Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.
— Douglas Coupland
I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
— Diane von Furstenberg
I'm amazed. When I was 40, I thought I'd never make 50. And at 50 I thought the frosting on the cake would be 60. At 60, I was still going strong and enjoying everything.
I was one of six children, brought up by my mother in Swindon after my father died. We had all we needed - food on the table, clothes to wear. When I wanted a drum kit, my mother got me one. When I got into playing guitar, I came down one Christmas or birthday and there was a guitar for me. It amazes me how Mum managed to do it.
— Gilbert O'Sullivan
Don't just count your years, make your years count.
— George Meredith
At my age flowers scare me.
— George Burns
I was hurtling towards 40, and I'd always wanted to write. It does focus your mind, heading towards that big birthday. If there is anything you think you want to do, you think, 'I probably should have a go now!'
— Gail Honeyman
To give somebody your time is the biggest gift you can give.
— Franka Potente
I never knew anyone who have growing up who had a clown at their birthday party. They are something I think of as being from the past. So I never had strong feelings about them. I do think that they can be creepy, I guess it depends on the clown.
— Finn Wolfhard
I'll never forget my 24th birthday when my tooth got punched out. And for a second I was like, it would be really hilarious if I sold it on eBay. But I can't, that's just too creepy. I don't think I can go there.
— Evan Rachel Wood
For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it!
— Eva Green
My dad bought me a dartboard for my 11th birthday, and I became intrigued by the game.
— Eric Bristow
The more Mommy blogs going nuclear over playground etiquette I read and birthday parties of glazed adults munching cupcakes like demoralized zombies I attend, I realize this is what my friends who conceived before me meant by, 'You just won't care.'
— Emma McLaughlin
The only thing better than singing is more singing.
— Ella Fitzgerald
When I see the kind of passion Sir Alex shows, it is hard to believe he is about to celebrate his 71st birthday.
— Edwin van der Sar
My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
— Dylan Lauren
I wore a $30 vintage wedding dress for my 8th birthday in an underground jazz club in Seattle. This was what I wanted.
It was a big pleasure to play a Grand Slam match on my birthday.
— Dominic Thiem
