Birthday Quotes

There's a certain point at which you don't want to hear 'Happy Birthday'. You just want to pretend the day doesn't exist. Just remember what I'm telling you: 78 is not old.

I have, on the occasion of my 95th birthday today, received many messages of good wishes, which I very much appreciate. While as a family we are in a period of great sadness, it has been a comfort to us all to see and to hear the tributes paid to my husband, from those within the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and around the world.

Every birthday, you decide whether to mark it the end of your greatest days or the beginning of your finest hour.

"I hope, sir, that I will shoot your picture on your hundredth birthday." I don't see why not, young man. You look reasonably fit and healthy.

Why party like it is 1999 when you can party like it is your birthday?

I'm lost in the middle of my birthday. I want my friends, their touch, with the earth's last love. I will take life's final offering, I will take the last human blessing.

A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.