“A child should always say what's true and speak when he is spoken to.”
Robert Louis Stevenson

200 FAMOUS QUOTES · BIRTHDAY
Read 200 of the best birthday quotes, wishes and blessings for friends, family and loved ones, from Shakespeare, Lewis Carroll, the Bible and more.
“A child should always say what's true and speak when he is spoken to.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“A birdie with a yellow bill hopped upon the window sill, cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-head?'”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“Sing a song of seasons! Something bright in all! Flowers in the summer, fires in the fall!”
Robert Louis Stevenson
“'How old did you say you were?' 'Seven years and six months.' 'Seven years and six months! An uncomfortable sort of age.'”
Lewis Carroll
“All in the golden afternoon full leisurely we glide.”
Lewis Carroll
“Far and few, far and few, are the lands where the Jumblies live.”
Edward Lear
“The Owl looked up to the stars above, and sang to a small guitar.”
Edward Lear
“Little Jack Horner sat in a corner, eating a Christmas pie.”
Mother Goose
“Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall, Humpty Dumpty had a great fall.”
Mother Goose
“What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow: what are brief? to-day and to-morrow.”
Christina Rossetti
“The sleep that flits on baby's eyes - does anybody know from where it comes?”
Rabindranath Tagore
“I wish I could take a quiet corner in the heart of my baby's very own world.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Mother, the folk who live up in the clouds call out to me - 'We play from the time we wake till the day ends.'”
Rabindranath Tagore
“At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.”
Samuel Johnson
“I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live.”
The Bible (Psalm 104:33)
“Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits.”
The Bible (Psalm 103:2)
“And thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not.”
The Bible (Isaiah 58:11)
“Delight thyself also in the Lord; and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.”
The Bible (Psalm 37:4)
“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above.”
The Bible (James 1:17)
“No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.”
The Bible (Psalm 84:11)
“For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.”
The Bible (Psalm 36:9)
“Now unto him that is able to do exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.”
The Bible (Ephesians 3:20)
“Arise, shine; for thy light is come.”
The Bible (Isaiah 60:1)
“The Lord hath done great things for us; whereof we are glad.”
The Bible (Psalm 126:3)
“He asked life of thee, and thou gavest it him, even length of days for ever and ever.”
The Bible (Psalm 21:4)