3 December 2020 Matthew Sweet I went to a rare live Van Dyke show and met him there. And then he came to a show of mine and we spoke back stage. The third time was at Brian Wilson’s birthday party.
3 December 2020 Bobby McFerrin Well, I started conducting kind of by accident. I wanted to give myself a special birthday present for my fortieth birthday, and I was living in San Francisco at the time and I started attending some of the concerts and then simply dropping hints.
3 December 2020 Julianna Margulies The reason I met my husband was because I remembered a friend’s birthday. The moral of the story is: Remember people’s birthdays.
3 December 2020 Mitch Hedberg I wanted to buy a candle holder, but the store didn’t have one. So I got a cake.
3 December 2020 Barry White I quit high school on my birthday. It was my senior year and I didn’t see the point. This was 1962, and I was ready to make music.
3 December 2020 Lisa Loeb With my daughter, we do arts and crafts, we read a lot, we listen to music, and we cut the strings off balloons and bounce them around after birthday parties.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. I have asked for a chainsaw for my birthday, but I think I’ll probably be given jewelry instead.
3 December 2020 Diane von Furstenberg I had arranged a birthday party for him and my children, who are all Aquarians. Instead, we got married. I ran out of excuses. It was just us and my children.
3 December 2020 Oprah Winfrey The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Tierney Mattresses! Beautiful! Let’s go buy a couple of mattresses. Give ’em to people for their birthday.
3 December 2020 Brian Tracy The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
3 December 2020 Anne Lamott Some people won’t go the extra mile, and then on their birthday, when no one makes a fuss, they feel neglected and bitter.
3 December 2020 Gloria Stuart When I was little I thought, isn’t it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it’s July 4th.
3 December 2020 Kelly Clarkson I just had my 30th birthday and we went turkey shooting. It’s what I wanted to do, so we went.
3 December 2020 Eleanor Roosevelt 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.
3 December 2020 Loretta Lynn My biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.
3 December 2020 Ed Koch Citizens, thank you for all your birthday wishes. I am 88 years old today and still lucky to live in the greatest city in the world.
3 December 2020 Susan Orlean 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.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
3 December 2020 Samantha Bee I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children’s birthdays too.
3 December 2020 Thomas Menino And for the city’s birthday, we will host events in every neighborhood of the city, inviting all of our residents to share in the celebration of Boston’s great epic – the story of neighbors who support one another where it matters most.
3 December 2020 Sloane Crosley I’m a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
3 December 2020 Mikhail Baryshnikov I like to go to anybody else’s birthday, and if I’m invited I’m a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don’t care.
3 December 2020 Kirstie Alley I binge when I’m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I’m at a birthday party.
3 December 2020 Walter Cronkite I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.
3 December 2020 George Saunders I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave the character in half, on his birthday. And then it starts raining. And he’s made of sugar.
