From the age of 17 through my 20s, I was living on my own, so sometimes I wouldn't even tell anybody it was my birthday. It was not a big thing for me.
Traditionally Presidents Day was Washington's birthday. It was celebrated as a public holiday on February 22 each year, in peace or in war.
The first fact about the celebration of a birthday is that it is a way of affirming defiantly, and even flamboyantly, that it is a good thing to be alive.
I hate my birthday. I don't like to celebrate it much. But, if someone wants to throw me a surprise party, that normally works better.
As I approached my 18th birthday and prepared to enter military service in World War II, I was recommended to receive the Melchizedek Priesthood.
If I have one wish for my birthday, it is that 35 is the end of desperation and the beginning of acceptance. Part of that is believing that if I'm meant to give birth, I will.
If Joan of Arc could turn the tide of an entire war before her eighteenth birthday, you can get out of bed.
For my 23rd birthday I had a house party that was '90s themed and I dressed up as Alabama whirly from 'True Romance.'
When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
I joke that I spent 38 years scouring the globe, going to war zones, trying to find the person with my exact birthday.
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.
Consider this on your birthday
You've got life's struggle beaten
For 60 years you've ate
And avoided being eaten
There are times I have to diet 16 weeks at a go, and I had to miss out on stuff I love, like burgers and birthday parties.
I heard last year at [insert name]'s birthday party they had to set up mirrors to make it look like a crowd.
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.
Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday
It is on this beautiful day that we celebrate the Fuhrers birthday and thank him for he is the only reason why Germany is still alive today
What a childhood I had. Once on my birthday my ol' man gave me a bat. The first day I played with it, it flew away.
Lincoln was known to have walked miles to borrow books, to get the most rudimentary form of education. So what do we do on his birthday? We close the schools!
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce.
United Nations Day marks the birthday of our founding Charter - the landmark document that embodies the hopes, dreams and aspirations of 'we the peoples.'
I was concerned about being 40 and for my 40th birthday my wish was to go see Cher, and I got to meet her.
Family time was very difficult when my girls were little, but I never missed a birthday, I was there for every major event.
Milton Hope led the singing of Happy Birthday ... He would say, 'Keep it sweet and short and don't try to be funny.'
My grandma spelled my name wrong until she died. Like literally, birthday cards, mail, everything.
If you are invisible, you are vulnerable. Birth Registration must be everyone's priority. Let's make all children visible and let's give every child a birthday!
Someone once I asked my son Cruz, 'When's your birthday?' and he told them, 'It's just after Fashion Week!'
Having studied at the Sorbonne, I spent my 21st birthday in Paris and celebrated with one of my professors in a cafe outside of Notre Dame.
Everyone who reaches a milestone birthday in their lives has an opportunity to truly appreciate the fact that presumably we have acquired all the gifts that maturity and age can bring us.
If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.
My sentence formally was imposed on my mothers 50th Birthday January 24th 1983. The jury recommended it July 1st 1982.
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
I called to wish you an unhappy birthday because you're evil and you lie and if you should die I may feel slightly sad, but I won't cry.
I chose to wait to get my drivers license. Since I was working and I didn't have time, I got it like a week before my 18th birthday.
Martin Luther King can have his own self-titled birthday recognized as a national holiday, but not our country's first president?
This girl (Stephanie) is but a few months away from her seventeenth birthday and already she has saved the world and killed a god. What have you done?
On its self-titled debut, Happy Birthday flirts with several flavors of love, and 'Girls FM' is where taste gets confusing.
When I was 13, my parents bought me a mini snooker set for my birthday. From the moment I first held a cue in my hands, I was transfixed.
I am a very private person, so on my birthday too I will spend a cozy time with my family and a few close friends!
My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 - or 1957. It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day, who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
To this day, on my cheat days from my diet, which are New Year's Eve and my birthday, I buy luxury foods that are very indicative of my class.
The most effective way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once... You know what I did before I married? Anything I wanted to.
The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.
Most artists don't get paid for what they do, and they are lucky if they can persuade a friend to let them show something at a kid's birthday party.
But we're going to smile and pretend we're fine with the dorky birthmas gifts because people do not get that they can't mush a birthday into christmas.
Happy 60th Birthday, good buddy.
How are you dealing with your awful debility,
lessened utility and loss of mobility?
I'd go out with my family and my close ones, who have been by my side through the years, but I am not the one who will throw parties on his birthday.
One of my favorite memories was one time Prince picked me up and said we were going to Michael Jordan's birthday party.
At 50, you need to laugh about your age. If you don't, everybody else will do it for you. Happy birthday, old chum!
I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.
Now Ben Folds is my photography older brother. He was kind enough to give me a photo of his for my 40th birthday.
I'm scared of heights, but for my 30th birthday I'm going to try and get someone to kick me out of a plane and do a parachute jump.
Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday
My mom's always asking me for hits and stolen bases and home runs and different things on Mother's Day and her birthday.
When I see the kind of passion Sir Alex shows, it is hard to believe he is about to celebrate his 71st birthday.
It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker.
In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
Happy Birthday To Steph, You're a Hoe with Big Breasts, so take the Night off from Hooking... If ya Smell what The Rock's cooking!
Elvis was a major hero of mine. I was probably stupid enough to believe that having the same birthday as him actually meant something.
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