Birthday

A birthday is a day filled with special joy, a day that lets you know you’re always loved and cherished.
A birthday is a time to plan ahead and to dream of all the beautiful things that life has to offer.
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip!
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age.
A special person like you deserves the best that each day can bring.
Asked of a lady on her 104th birthday, “What is the best thing about turning 104?” Her reply: “No peer pressure!”

At 19, everything is possible and tomorrow looks friendly. ~Jim Bishop~
At 50, you become a Wise Older Woman, free to honour wrinkles, accept your body as is, and admit that aging isn’t about losing youth, but about gaining wisdom.
At my age happy hour is nap time
At seventy-seven it is time to be earnest. ~Samuel Johnson~
At twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgement. ~Benjamin Franklin~
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. ~Orson Welles~
Birthday Rules: Stay Cute. Wish Big. Never Let Anybody Count Your Candles!
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni~
Birthdays are good for you; the more you have, the longer you live.
Birthdays are nature’s way of telling us to eat more cake.
Birthdays are ordinary days sprinkled with stardust.
Birthdays give us the opportunities to stop and appreciate all the beautiful things we have been blessed with.
Don’t think of yourself as getting older…You are, of course, but it’s best not to think of it!
Each birthday is a new beginning, full of promise and opportunity and the chance to make dreams come true.
Everyone is the age of their heart.
Finally 21, and legally able to do everything I’ve been doing since 15.
From birth to age eighteen, a girl needs good parents. From eighteen to thirty-five, she needs good looks. From thirty-five to fifty-five, she needs a good personality. From fifty-five on, she needs good cash. ~Sophie Tucker~
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis~
Happy Birthday to a guy who’s smart, charming, and absolutely gorgeous…and I’d say so even if I WEREN’T your mom!
Hope your Birthday gently breezes into your life all the choicest of things and all that your heart holds dear Have A Fun- Filled Day.
I know I wished you this before, but every year I wish it more: Happy Birthday!
If things get better with age, then you are approaching magnificent. ~Sara Teasdale~
I’m not over the hill, I’m just reaching my peak!
In dog years, I’m dead.
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing~
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane~
It’s always nice to wish the best to someone who really is!
It’s your birthday and anything you want to do is okay by me…
I’ve heard how cranky old people get when they don’t get their way!
Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz~
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote~
Lying about your age is easier now that you sometimes forget what it is.
May happiness fill your day and may sunshine fill all your tomorrows.
Men are like wine. Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that’ll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett~
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis~
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope~
Most of us can remember a time when a birthday – especially if it was one’s own – brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ~Robert Lynd~
Not just today, but all the days after.
Old enough to know better but too old to care.
On your birthday, I’m wishing you something you’ve always given me…happiness, laughter and lots of love.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter~
Pleas’d look forward, pleas’d to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind. ~Alexander Pope~
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. ~Ralph Parlette~
Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry~
The Best way to remember your wife’s birthday is to forget it once. ~H. V. Prochnow~
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright~
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball~
The splendour of old men…their grey head. ~Proverbs 20:29~
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents…and only one for birthday presents, you know. ~Lewis Carroll~
There comes a time when you should stop expecting other people to make a big deal about your birthday…that time is age eleven.
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn~
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.
Thirty-five is a very attractive age, London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.~Jean Rostand~
Time may be a great healer, but it’s a lousy beautician.
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson~
We know we’re getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown~
We’re happy you were born – Hooray!
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain~
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson~
Wishing you sunshine, love and laughter.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely.
You know you are getting old when the candles cost more than the cake. ~Bob Hope~
Your birthday is a special time to celebrate the gift of ‘you’ to the world.
You’re not 40, you’re eighteen with 22 years experience.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw~
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith~
On your birthday stretch for a sunbeam…

Reach for a star…

Go for a beautiful dream…

Pick out some wishes, no matter how far,

Or how hard to reach, they may seem…

Cherish some hopes that are dear to your heart…

And as a new year comes in view, treasure and keep them

And know from the start, that this year

You can make them come true!

Over the Hill

Over the Hill and sliding down fast,

You knew being young just couldn’t last.

Your back goes out the eyes grow dim,

You can’t hear over the background din.

Aches and pains are constant companions

You wear bigger shoes because of your bunions!

The memory is fading, names you forget

You really don’t want to get older – and yet…

The slide down the other side of the hill

Can give you quite an invigorating thrill!

~Lona Hatfield~

What to Count

Don’t count how many years you’ve spent,

Just count the good you’ve done;

The times you’ve lent a helping hand,

The friends that you have won.

Count your deeds of kindness,

The smiles, not the tears;

Count all the pleasures that you’ve had,

But never count the years.

~Emilie Barnes~

Turning Thirty

I dreamed of being sweet sixteen,

Then magic twenty-one,

But suddenly I’m twenty-nine

And seeing thirty come.

My babysitter calls me “ma’am”!

It makes me feel quite numb,

How can I think of me as old?

I’ve always been so YOUNG!

Once I could name the “top ten” songs

Played on the radio,

And now I turn the rock groups down

Or hunt for something slow.

Now there are lines around my eyes

I thought would never show,

And pounds that used to be above

My waist have sunk below.

The boy I worshipped in college

Now lies beside me snoring.

His middle’s thicker–so is mine,

And he’s not so adoring.

He used to worship at my feet;

Now mostly he’s ignoring.

I once clung to his every word;

Now sometimes he is boring.

I was depressed to see how fast

My youthful days could flee,

And then I met a fine old man.

His age was eighty-three.

His hair was white, his walk was slow,

And he could barely see.

He called me “child” and said he wished

He was as young as me.

~Sharon Yates Lyerly~

80!

Today Dear Lord I am 80 and there’s much I haven’t done,

I hope Dear Lord, You’ll let me live until I’m 81.

But then if I haven’t finished all I want to do,

Would you let me stay awhile until I’m 82?

So many places I want to go, so very much to see,

Do You think You could manage to make it 83?

The world is changing very fast

There is much in store,

I’d like it very much to live until I’m 84.

And if by then I’m still alive,

I’d like to stay till 85.

More planes will be up in the air,

So I’d really like to stick,

And see what happens to the world when I am 86.

I know Dear Lord it’s much to ask,

And it must be nice in heaven.

But I would really like to stay until I’m 87.

I know by then I won’t be fast, and sometimes will be late,

But it would be so pleasant, to be around at 88.

I will have seen many things and had a wonderful time,

So, I’m sure that I’ll be will to leave at 89…maybe.

Happy Birthday to Me

Happy birthday to me. I like what I see!

There’s plenty of junk food, and the presents are free!

~Mike Artell~

Monday’s Child

Monday’s child is fair of face;

Tuesday’s child is full of grace;

Wednesday’s child is on the go;

Thursday’s child is a joy to know.

Friday’s child is loving and giving;

Saturday’s child takes joy in living;

but the child that is born on the Sabbath day

is merry and blithe and bright and gay.

The Birthday Child

Everything’s been different

All the day long,

Lovely things have happened,

Nothing has gone wrong.

Nobody has scolded me,

Everyone has smiled.

Isn’t it delicious

To be a birthday child?

~Rose Fyleman~

Packages

Isn’t it fun to open packages?

Isn’t it fun to guess

What’s in them first? It might be a doll

Or a game or a party dress.

I like them best when they come with ribbons

And bows to be untied.

And pretty seals that you have to tear

Before you can look inside.

~Adelaide Lowe~

Never Quite Just Right

They say I’m too young, to cross the street to play.

That I’m too old to cry,

When I don’t get my way.

That I am much to big, to swing on the garden gate.

But very much too small, to stay up after eight.

I’m young, I’m old, I’m big, I’m small

Do you ever think, in age and height,

I will ever grow to be just right?

A Verse for the Night Before a Birthday

When I have said my evening prayer,

And my clothes are folded on the chair,

And my mother switches off the light,

I’ll still be four years old tonight.

But, from the very break of day,

Before the children rise and play,

Before the darkness turns to gold,

Tomorrow, I’ll be five years old.

Five kisses when I wake,

Five candles on my cake!

I won’t be three or two or one,

For that was when I’d first begun.

Now I’ll be five awhile,

And then I’ll soon be something else again.

~M. Meyer Kort~

Believing hear, what you deserve to hear:

Your birthday as my own to me is dear…

But yours gives most; for mine did only lend

Me to the world; yours gave to me a friend.

~Martial~

Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson~

What Is a One-Year Old?

A One-year-old daughter is so many things…

A tiny discoverer of butterfly wings,

A hugger of Teddies,

A sweet sleepyhead,

And someone to dream for in bright years ahead.

A special new person

Who, right from the start,

Has a place in the family

And, of course, in your heart.

And, just when you think

That you’ve learned all the things

That your dear Daughter is

And the joy that she brings,

A hug or a grin

Comes with such sweet surprise

That love finds you smiling

With tears in your eyes!

Four Years Old

Something’s happened!

It happened to me!

Yesterday, I was only three.

But when today

came through the door,

suddenly

I turned to FOUR!

~Joan Walsh Anglund~

Five

Please, everybody, look at me!

Today I’m five years old, you see!

And after this, I won’t be four,

Not ever, ever, any more!

Now We Are Six

When I was one,

I had just begun.

When I was two,

I was nearly new.

When I was three,

I was hardly me.

When I was four,

I was not much more.

When I was five,

I was just alive.

But now I am six,

I’m as clever as clever.

So I think I’ll be six

now and forever.

~A.A. Milne~

Today You Are Ten

I can hardly believe,

That today you are ten.

I wish you were still little,

But I cannot pretend.

You have grown to be strong,

Sensitive and kind.

When I see you out playing

I can’t believe you are mine.

Talented, athletic, funny and sweet,

You drink a gallon of milk every week!

I can hardly keep up.

You are growing so fast.

Ten years as your mother

Is now a thing of the past.

My prayer? My hope?

My dream for your life?

Love God. Seek His word.

Do what is right.

My heart? My ambition?

My desire everyday?

To love you and train you

To walk in His ways.

~Delora Burrow-Bradish~

Sweet Sixteen

Fifteen years have come and gone

Your sixteenth year begins at dawn

Your life as a child almost complete

A fine young lady we all now meet

So in the days and years to come

Take time to sing and dance and hum

When you get older through life you must run

So while you are young, take time for fun