“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
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“Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.”
“All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.”
“You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'”
“A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.”
“The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.”
“It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.”
“The only thing better than singing is more singing.”
“It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'”
“We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.”
“If you look over the years, the styles have changed - the clothes, the hair, the production, the approach to the songs. The icing to the cake has changed flavors. But if you really look at the cake itself, it's really the same.”
“Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.”
“There is still no cure for the common birthday.”
“I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.”
“Let them eat cake.”
“Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.”
“New Year's Day is every man's birthday.”
“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.”
“Your children need your presence more than your presents.”
“Being seventy is not a sin.”
“If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.”
“I hate birthdays.”
“Love the giver more than the gift.”
“When someone asks if you'd like cake or pie, why not say you want cake and pie?”