They often reflect a form of evaluation of life experience may
therefore they can be great to add a birthday card or birthday
gift.
Here is a varied collection our first few happy birthday
sayings and quotes about life and our role in it:
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more
there is in life to celebrate.
~ Oprah Winfrey ~
One way to get the most out of life is to look upon
it as an adventure.
~ William Feather ~
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that
count. It's the life in your years.
~ Abraham Lincoln ~
As I grow to understand life less and less, I learn
to love it more and more.
~ Jules Renard ~
Your life is a gift from the Creator. Your gift back
to the Creator is what you do with your life.
~Billy Mills ~
The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.
~ Elbert Hubbard ~
Now, as a special treat we'd like to invite you to go back
with us through history to track the rise and development of
birthdays. Here are a few birthday facts.
Looking Back at the History of Birthdays and Their
Celebrations!
Birthdays have been around for a long time but the celebration
of birthdays and the meaning of it has varied tremendously
throughout the centuries.
The first recorded birthday celebration actually dates back
before the rise of Christianity.
In some pagan cultures, it was believed that an evil spirit
would pay a visit to people on their birthdays. On a person's
birthday, people would surround the birthday person and make
merry. Usually, this involved making a lot of noise in order to
scare away the evil spirits.
Unlike today, birthday gifts were not traditional. Instead,
people usually brought the person good wishes.
On occasion, someone would bring the birthday person a gift.
Most considered this a good sign for the receiving individual.
Following this, flowers became one of the most popular birthday
gifts.
Although few records give accounts of common people having
birthday celebrations, historians are certain that they existed
but no one considered them important enough to write about.
Today, most of the documented descriptions come from kings
and other high-ranking nobility as well as those with high
positions in society.
Many believe that many of the common people and children
could not celebrate their birthdays, since they were not wealthy
enough to throw a party.
Germans are the first documented in history, to start the
celebration of children's birthdays by starting "kinderfeste".
The word "kinderfeste" originates from "kinder" meaning children
and "feste" which refers to a festival or party.
In 1893, two sisters, Mildred and Patty Hill changed their
song from Good Morning to you, to Happy Birthday to You. From
then on, the tradition of singing these words caught on and as
we know continue to this present day.
As we also know, birthday celebrations are very popular
across the world – how the celebrations are carried out differs,
but they all involve celebration of one special person on their
birthday.
Those were a few birthday facts on the history of birthdays.
Let's get on with some good happy birthday quotes.
Funny Birthday Quotes about Birthdays!
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the
people who have the most live the longest.
~ Larry Lorenzoni ~
So …
Please look forward, please look behind, and count
each birthday with a grateful mind.
~ Alexander Pope ~
Because time itself is like a spiral, something
special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that
God invested in you at birth is present once again.
~ Menachem Mendel Schneerson ~
A birthday: – and now a day that rose With much of
hope, with meaning rife A thoughtful day from dawn to close: The
middle day of human life.
~ Jean Ingelow ~
Birthdays seem to have a very special meaning between man and
wife. Here are some funny happy birthday quotes about the wife
never seeming to get any older 🙂
What can you say when your husband says: 'You can't
expect me to remember your birthday when you never look any
older.
~ Toni Anderson ~
It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife
hasn't had a birthday in seven years.
~ Robert Orben ~
Once my wife gave me a wonderful birthday present.
She let me win an argument.
~ Funny birthday quote ~
Children and Growing in Life!
And from birthday quotes about man and wife to birthday quotes
about children and youth.
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a
sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place
among them.
~ Virginia Woolf ~
A child's world is fresh and new and beautiful, full
of wonder and excitement. It is our misfortune that for most of
us that clear-eyed vision, their true instinct for what is
beautiful and awe-inspiring, is dimmed and even lost before we
reach adulthood.
~ Rachel Carson ~
If children grew up according to early indications,
we should have nothing but geniuses.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the
volume knob turns to the left.
~ Jerry M. Wright ~
The day the child realizes that all adults are
imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them,
he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes
wise.
~ Alden Nowlan ~
We grow neither better nor worse as we get old, but
more like ourselves.
~ May Lamberton Becker ~
It is only because of problems that we grow mentally
and spiritually.
~ M. Scott Peck ~
Make your friends and family laugh out loud by sending
hilarious e-cards starring you or them on their birthdays : )
Funny Age Quotes
Everybody seems to have something to say about aging.
Some people have a hard time accepting the fact that they're
getting older, other people rejoice in it and wouldn't trade it
for the world.
Here are some happy birthday quotes and funny age quotes –
all of them are positive in some way or other, some are even
funny:
Beautiful young people are accidents of nature, but
beautiful old people are works of art.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The lovely thing about being forty is that you can
appreciate twenty-five-year old men.
~ Colleen McCullough ~
No wise man ever wished to be younger.
~ Jonathan Swift ~
Do not resent growing old. Many are denied the
privilege.
~ Happy birthday saying ~
There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take
time to look for it. For example, I am sitting here thinking how
nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt.
~ Happy birthday quote ~
The best thing about getting old is that all those
things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.
~ L.S. McCandless ~
You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they
get older.
~ Anouk Aimee ~
You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the
things that make you want to live to be a hundred.
~ Woody Allen ~
Of late I appear to have reached that stage when
people look old who are only my age.
~ Richard Amour ~
The older you get, the more you tell it like it used
to be.
~ Happy birthday quote ~
We hope you enjoyed these happy birthday quotes and funny
quotes on age just as much as we did. If you want more happy
birthday quotes you are welcome to follow the links below.
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