Claire Tomalin best Birthday Quotes – “As he approached his 28th birthday in February 1840, Dickens knew himself to be famous, successful and tired. He needed a rest, and he made up his mind to keep the year free of the pressure of producing monthly installments of yet another long novel.”
Jonathan Hickman best Birthday Quotes – “The first comic book I ever read was an issue of ‘Legion of Super-Heroes’ where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.”
Sherwin B. Nuland best Birthday Quotes – “By the time of my ninth birthday, I had become a bit of a socialist, as I am said by conservative colleagues to be to this day. I went on within the next few years to volunteer as an envelope stuffer for the American Labor Party, and my political thinking has not shifted measurably since that time.”
Amanda Marshall best Birthday Quotes – “I never got a chocolate birthday cake; I got a carob one. And when I went to other kids’ houses, I was very covetous of things like Cheez Whiz that I’d find in their refrigerators.”
Noel Wells best Birthday Quotes – “I’m one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.”
Lesley Manville best Birthday Quotes – “If I go away, I take a little picture of my son. It’s in a frame with a speaker, and he recorded a birthday message for me when he was nine or 10. I can’t listen to it without filling up.”
Neil Jackson best Birthday Quotes – “For my 23rd birthday, I received a nylon string guitar. I told myself that if I could play Eric Clapton’s ‘Tears In Heaven,’ then I could play the guitar. I practised every chance I got, driving my housemates insane, until several weeks later I had a shaky version of the song down. I wrote my first song on the guitar a few weeks after that.”
Nimrat Kaur best Birthday Quotes – “An army environment is very protected, a walled city kind of environment, where everybody has the same income, you have the same birthday parties, you are given return gifts – everything is the same. Everybody is moving up at the same pace.”
Debi Mazar best Birthday Quotes – “My mom had me at 16 and took me every place she went. I remember going on peace marches. She tried to take me to Woodstock – it was pouring rain. It was on my birthday, and I was crying so much in the car they turned the car around and dumped me at my grandmother’s house… I had a little attitude.”
Jonas Armstrong best Birthday Quotes – “Jewellery’s not a big thing for me. The only thing I wear is a gold cross on a chain that I got for my 21st birthday. You have to take it off every day for filming, but that’s the only time I’m not wearing it. You won’t find me in rings, bracelets or earrings.”
Peter O’Toole best Birthday Quotes – “I saw a man killed in front of my eyes just before my eighth birthday.”
Imogen Poots best Birthday Quotes – “I was very aware of Jeff Buckley. My brother actually bought me The Mamas And The Papas and Jeff Buckley for my birthday when I was in my early teens.”
Blake Anderson best Birthday Quotes – “I love mayonnaise. Every birthday when I was a kid I’d go to Black Angus and just dip my burger in mayo.”
Pete Wentz best Birthday Quotes – “As a kid, I always went to therapists; the first time was when my parents were separated on my sixth birthday, then on and off since then.”
Shashi Tharoor best Birthday Quotes – “I have been a frequent air traveler since I was a few months shy of my sixth birthday, when my parents packed me off to boarding school two plane rides away from home. Those days of being willingly handed from air hostess to air hostess as an ‘unaccompanied minor’ made me blase about the rigors of air travel.”