Birthday Quotations
These birthday quotations have been grouped under the headings: Wisdom, Witty and Milestone Birthdays (20th, 30th,
40th, 50th and 60th plus birthdays), to help you find what you need to make your birthday speech a standout success.
Where the author is known, I've included their name alongside the quotation. If you choose to use their words, please
acknowledge them.
Because I found so many wonderful birthday quotations to fit each category, I've made separate pages for the Witty and Milestone Quotations.
Birthday Quotations - Wisdom
These have been selected for the insights they offer. They are more serious in tone and not specific to any particular age group.
What I did find surprising was the general lack of quotations especially for children. However in my searching I came across a remarkable homeschool resource site offering, amongst many other things, quotations or verses for a child to celebrate the spiritual significance of their birth. This Waldorf (Steiner) education site gives samples as well as an overview of the meaning of a birthday and 'how-to' celebrate it suggestions. I hope you enjoy it.
And now onto the wisdom themed birthday quotations suitable for most ages...
Man's main task in life is to give birth to himself, to become what he
potentially is. The most important product of his effort is his own personality.
Erich Fromm |
Sooner or later we all discover that the important moments in life are not the
advertised ones, not the birthdays, the graduations, the weddings, not the great goals achieved. The real milestones are less prepossessing. They come to the door of memory unannounced, stray dogs that amble in, sniff around a bit and simply never
leave. Our lives are measured by these.
Susan B Anthony |
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The soul that rises with us, our
life's star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home.
William Wordsworth |
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we
have a new birth.
Ralph Parlette |
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In the midst of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible
summer.
Albert Camus |
Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.
George Sand |
Keep true to the dream of thy youth.
Friedrich Von Schiller |
If you want to be happy, be.
Henry David Thorreau |
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with
other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf |
There was a star danced, and under that was I born.
William Shakespeare |
Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the
ability to see beauty never grows old.
Franz Kafka |
When the first baby laughed for the first time, the laugh broke into a
thousand pieces and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.
James M. Barrie |
There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that
reflects it.
Edith Wharton |
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original
sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up...a lot of people don't have the courage to do it.
Helen Hayes |
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 |
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
Lucy Larcom |
PLeas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind.
Alexander Pope |
May you live all the days of your life.
Jonathan Swift |
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
Jean Paul Richter |
...the birthday of my life,
Is come, my love is come to me.
Christina Georgina Rossetti |
From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.
William Butler Yeats |
Sugar in the gourd and honey in the horn,
I never was so happy since the hour I was born.
Anonymous |
The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet.
Robert Orben |
Sing a song of Birthdays
Full of fun and cheer
And may you keep on having them
For many a happy year.
Anonymous |
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that
somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow |
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 |
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
Plautus |
The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune.
English Proverb |
The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.
Pierre Cornielle |
It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.
Margaret Mead |
Margaret Mead's quote brings my selection of wisdom themed birthday quotations to an end.
I hope you've found the birthday quotations you needed.
Go well, incorporating them into your speech.
Remember, there are more birthday quotations on the Witty and Milestone pages. So if you haven't got the exact ones you wanted, do try browsing through those too.
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