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Birthday Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · BIRTHDAY
Birthday Quotes
Read 200 of the best birthday quotes, wishes and blessings for friends, family and loved ones, from Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, the Bible and more.
“It was the birthday of the Infanta. She was just twelve years of age, and the sun was shining brightly in the gardens of the palace.”
Oscar Wilde
BirthdayChildhood
“'Where have I come from, where did you pick me up?' the baby asked its mother. She answered, 'You were hidden in my heart as its desire, my darling.'”
Rabindranath Tagore
MotherBirth
“If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment.”
Rabindranath Tagore
BabyWonder
“When I bring you coloured toys, my child, I understand why there is such a play of colours on clouds.”
Rabindranath Tagore
ChildrenPresents
“They come through you but not from you, and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.”
Kahlil Gibran
ChildrenParenting
“Oft, in the stilly night, ere Slumber's chain has bound me, fond Memory brings the light of other days around me.”
Thomas Moore
MemoriesNostalgia
“Happy those early days! when I shined in my angel infancy.”
Henry Vaughan
ChildhoodInnocence
“The corn was orient and immortal wheat, which never should be reaped, nor was ever sown.”
Thomas Traherne
ChildhoodWonder
“Ah, happy hills, ah, pleasing shade, ah, fields beloved in vain, where once my careless childhood strayed.”
Thomas Gray
ChildhoodNostalgia
“We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it.”
George Eliot
ChildhoodEarth
“Love me, - I love you, love me, my baby.”
Christina Rossetti
BabyLove
“Here's to thy health, my bonie lass.”
Robert Burns
ToastLove
“For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past.”
The Bible (Psalm 90:4)
TimeFaith
“That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth.”
The Bible (Psalm 144:12)
ChildrenGrowth
“For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.”
The Bible (Psalm 71:5)
YouthFaith
“O taste and see that the Lord is good.”
The Bible (Psalm 34:8)
GratitudeFaith
“The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.”
The Bible (Numbers 6:26)
BlessingPeace
“Every day will I bless thee.”
The Bible (Psalm 145:2)
GratitudeBlessing
“He will rejoice over thee with joy; he will rest in his love, he will joy over thee with singing.”
The Bible (Zephaniah 3:17)
JoyLove
“How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!”
The Bible (Psalm 139:17)
GratitudeFaith
“O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good.”
The Bible (Psalm 118:1)
GratitudeFaith
“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given.”
The Bible (Isaiah 9:6)
BirthCelebration
“Behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy.”
The Bible (Luke 2:10)
JoyGood News
“Yea, thou shalt see thy children's children.”
The Bible (Psalm 128:6)
FamilyLong Life