birthdays Quotes

“After all, what are birthdays? Here today and gone tomorrow.”

″‘I told you. On his eleventh birthday. At three o’clock in the afternoon. It’ll sort of home in on him. He’s supposed to name it himself.‘”

“Now let me see,” he thought, as he took his last lick of the inside of the jar, “where was I going, Ah, yes, Eeyore.” He got up slowly. And then, suddenly, he remembered. He had eaten Eeyore’s present!

“You don’t always want to be miserable on my birthday, do you?”

“This day shall be thy birth-day, and thy grave.”

“And I wish I could do All these great things for you!”

“All of it, all of it, All is for you!”

“Wake up! For Today is your Day of all Days!”

“A Present! A-ha! Now what kind shall I give...? Why, the kind you’ll remember as long as you live!”

“The Great Birthday Bird! [...] This bird has a brain. He’s most beautifully brained with the brainiest bird-brain that’s ever been trained.”

“That costs quite a lot. But I couldn’t care less. Today is your birthday! Today You are You! So what if it costs me a thousand or two.”

“Today [...] eat whatever you want [...] If you wish, you may eat with both hands and both feet. So get in there and munch. Have a big munch-er-oo!”

“If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you. If you’d never been born, well then what would you do? [...] Why, you might be a WASN’T!”

“I am what I am! That’s a great thing to be! If I say so myself, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME!”

“Because, after your party, as well you may guess, it will take twenty days just to sweep up the mess.”

“I do not remember to have ever met a slave who could tell of his birthday.”

“Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is You-er than You!”

“Today I’m five. I was four last night going to sleep in Wardrobe, but when I wake up in Bed in the dark I’m changed to five, abracadabra. Before that I was three, then two, then one, then zero. ‘Was I minus numbers?‘”

“You seem so sad, Eeyore.”
“Sad? Why should I be sad? It’s my birthday. The happiest day of the year.”

“The family section ran a regular feature about kids on their birthdays, and my mother had called in some info. The last sentence read: ‘As a hobby, Leo Borlock collects porcupine neckties.‘”

″‘Hurry everybody!’ said Mr Lemoncello. ‘I don’t want to be late to my own birthday party.‘”

“For my last birthday, Dad bought me a pocket-sized Collins English Dictionary. It would only fit in a pocket that had been specially designed.”