I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.
Copy Quote View & ShareI wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn't have one. So I got a cake.
Copy Quote View & ShareCakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.
Copy Quote View & ShareWe 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareThere are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'
Copy Quote View & ShareMy 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.
Copy Quote View & ShareI'm not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!
Copy Quote View & ShareA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
Copy Quote View & ShareYou take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.
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