If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm. – Bruce Barton
I hate birthdays. – Zane Grey
Love the giver more than the gift. – Brigham Young
I often buy myself presents. Sometimes I will spend $100,000 in one day in a posh boutique. – Celine Dion
My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him. – Loretta Lynn
I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face. – Stephen Hopkins
My mother asked me what I wanted for my birthday, so I said I wanted to read poetry with her. – Guy Johnson
Would ye both eat your cake and have your cake? – John Heywood
It was my 16th birthday – my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do – write songs and sing them to people. – Stevie Nicks
You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room. – Jennifer Lopez
I trained to be a priest – started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind. – Johnny Vegas
My ace in the hole as a human being used to be my capacity for remembering birthdays. I worked at it. Whenever I made a new friend, I made a point of finding out his or her birthday early on, and I would record it in my Filofax calendar. – Susan Orlean
I left school on my 15th birthday. – David Bailey
When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. – Giada De Laurentiis
My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. – Flip Wilson
Interventions are really emotionally exhausting and I would never ever want to have one. In the same way, I would never want to have a surprise birthday party. That would be horrible. – Margaret Cho
I had been offered a Hollywood contract before my 18th birthday. It gave me the spark I needed. – Gene Tierney
It is ironic that the one thing that all religions recognize as separating us from our creator, our very self-consciousness, is also the one thing that divides us from our fellow creatures. It was a bitter birthday present from evolution. – Annie Dillard
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. – Harold Pinter
The first guitar I ever got was for my 13th birthday. – Rick Springfield
