Seventeenth Birthday Quotes

London

The Institute

Year of Our Lord 1878


"Mother, Father, my chwaer fach,

It's my seventeenth birthday today. I know that to write to you is to break the law, I know that I will likely tear this letter into pieces when it is finished. As I have done on all my birthdays past since I was twelve. But I write anyway, to commemorate the occasion - the way some make yearly pilgrimages to a grave, to remember the death of a loved one. For are we not dead to each other?

I wonder if when you woke this morning you remembered that today, seventeen years ago, you had a son? I wonder if you think of me and imagine my life here in the Institute in London? I doubt you could imagine it. It is so very different from our house surrounded by mountains, and the great clear blue sky and the endless green. Here, everything is black and gray and brown, and the sunsets are painted in smoke and blood. I wonder if you worry that I am lonely or, as Mother always used to, that I am cold, that I have gone out into the rain again without a hat? No one here worries about those details. There are so many things that could kill us at any moment; catching a chill hardly seems important.

I wonder if you knew that I could hear you that day you came for me, when I was twelve. I crawled under the bed to block out the sound of you crying my name, but I heard you. I heard mother call for her fach, her little one. I bit my hands until they bl ~ Cassandra Clare

He was about to go home, about to return to the place where he had had a family. It was in Godric's Hollow that, but for Voldemort, he would have grown up and spent every school holiday. He could have invited friends to his house ... He might even have had brothers and sisters ... It would have been his mother who had made his seventeenth birthday cake. The life he had lost had hardly ever seemed so real to him as at this moment, when he knew he was about to see the place where it had been taken from him. ~ J.K. Rowling

That realization: Her love was a lie, just like everything else was.
The day I'd be old enough to handle it: my seventeenth birthday ~ A.S. King

I should have known he and I weren't going to make it when for my seventeenth birthday he gave me a box of microwave popcorn and a used battery tester. You know, to test batteries before I put them in my Walkman. Like you give someone when you're in love. ~ Tina Fey

They all seem infected with a vivaciousness that isn't common in our compound, and there are more smiles on their faces than I've ever seen at once. And yet as I watch them, I feel more intensely than ever the knowledge that I'm not one of them. For these moral humans, birthdays are a kind of countdown to the end, the ticking clock of a dwindling life. For me, birthdays are notches on an infinite timeline. Will I grow tired of parties one day? Will my birthday become meaningless? I imagine myself centuries from now, maybe at my three-hundredth birthday, looking all the way back to my seventeenth. How will I possibly be happy, remembering the light in my mother's eyes? The swiftness of Uncle Antonio's steps as he dances? The way my father stands on edge of the courtyard, smiling in that vague, absent way of his?

The scene shifts and blues in my imagination. As if brushed away by some invisible broom, these people whom I've known my entire life disappear. The courtyard is empty, bare, covered in decaying leaves. I imagine Little Cam deserted, with everyone dead and gone and only me left in the shadows.

Forever. ~ Jessica Khoury

Very early, I knew that the only object in life was to grow. ~ Margaret Fuller

Pleas'd look forward, pleas'd to look behind,And count each birthday with a grateful mind. ~ Alexander Pope

Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. ~ Brigitte Bardot

Most of us can remember a time when a birthday - especially if it was one's own - brightened the world as if a second sun has risen. ~ Robert Staughton Lynd

MOTHER LOVE IS THE FUEL THAT ENABLES A NORMAL HUMAN BEING TO DO IMPOSSIBLE.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MOM ~ Bestwishesandquotes.com

If you survive long enough, you're revered-rather like an old building. ~ Katharine Hepburn

I think there's something about the homemade birthday cake, because my wife, on my daughter's first birthday, started the tradition where she takes a full cake and cuts the number birthday out of it. ~ Willie Geist

The best birthdays of all are those that haven't arrived yet. ~ Robert Orben

Its my birthday wish me happy birthday horus said happy birthday I yelled now shut up ~ Rick Riordan

For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier ... I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. ~ Steven Wright

Everyday is a birthday; every moment of it is new to us; we are born again, renewed for fresh work and endeavor. ~ Isaac Watts

I may not be physically present to stand by you while you cut your cake, but you'll be in my thoughts today! Happy Birthday. ~ Aamir Sarfraz (aamir Rajput Khan)

Today you are fulfilling another year of life and I will do everything to make it a memorable day for you. ~ Auliq Ice

You're birthday reminds me of the old Chinese scholar ... Yung No Mo ~ Dana Rosemary Scallon

At 50, if you are on a diet on your birthday, you can't eat a piece of your birthday cake. So grab two, a piece in each hand and, lo and behold, you will be on a balanced diet! Happy birthday, old chum! ~ Abraham Lincoln

Everyman and every living being have the same birth day: The birthday of the universe is our real birthday! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

He not busy being born is busy dying ~ Steve Jobs

I have a birthday, same as you," I wanted to tell the voices. "It just changes. Don't you wish you could change your birthday? ~ Tara Westover

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. ~ Mark Twain

Every birthday celebrates a life because every life is important. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

Today, you're 50. Now we can round your age up to 100! Happy 50th birthday! ~ Dave Barry

I have 'Happy Birthday' in multiple languages on my iPod - I like to play it at company birthday parties. ~ Yigal Azrouel

May your birthday be as pleasant and awesome as you always are. ~ Debasish Mridha

Every five years, I like to do a big birthday party. I had my 45th birthday with 75 friends in Marrakesh, Morocco. ~ Chip Conley

Do you need some birthday dick? I once got dick for my birthday - my first birthday, in fact. That's how they knew I was a boy. ~ Jarod Kintz

Birthday should be considered as a unit of measurement to measure our present status toward success! ~ Mohith Agadi

The universe wanted you to celebrate and appreciate your life so every year she gave you a birthday. ~ Debasish Mridha

When I was little I thought, isn't it nice that everybody celebrates on my birthday? Because it's July 4th. ~ Gloria Stuart

The birthday party was me and her, a whore friend of hers and her pimp, and the cake. ~ Diane Arbus

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

The advantage of living your life consistently with determination, purpose and righteousness, every day is a success. There is victory in each good intention that you act upon! - HAPPY BIRTHDAY ~ Carlos Wallace

For my birthday that year Anne gave me an inflatable atlas globe, along with a birthday card in which she wrote:
I give you the world.
Have fun blowing it up. ~ Craig Ferguson

Your birthday is a special day, May it bring you love and cheer It gives a chance for me to say, Happy birthday every year ~ Mary Baker Eddy

On my birthday, I was in Milan for the collections. ~ Eva Herzigova

This wine is forty years old. It certainly doesn't show its age. ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Your birthday has come round again
so we send this card to say,
happy birthday nephew dear
lots of love are sent your way. ~ Susan Smith

I wish you a vivacious day of love, laughter, and joy. Have an awesome birthday! ~ Debasish Mridha

Lots of birthday wishes
Are sent to you today
Hope your day will be
One of the best
You've ever had! ~ Julie McGregor

Birthdays were made for going wild over the people we think are amazing. ~ Richelle E. Goodrich

I lost twins at 14 weeks, and I had to have an D and C on my birthday. ~ Amy Weber

Food is one of life's really great pleasures. My 20th birthday party was all about booze, my 30th birthday was about drugs, and now I realise that my 40s are about food. It's something you appreciate more and more as you get older. ~ Alex James

In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. ~ Annette Funicello

Decorate your birthday with love and memories not with years. ~ Debasish Mridha

Once I was looking through the kitchen window at dusk and I saw an old woman looking in. Suddenly the light changed and I realized that the old woman was myself. you see, it all happens on the outside; inside one doesn't change. ~ Molly Keane

When confronted with a birthday in a week I will remember that a book can be a really good present, too. ~ Stephanie Pearl-McPhee

The existence of birthday cake ice cream suggests that we can no longer distinguish celebration foods from everyday ones. We are also not too sure whether we are children or adults. ~ Bee Wilson

On my 14th birthday, my grandfather and my grandmother gave me the best birthday present ever: a drafting table that I have worked on ever since. ~ Jarrett J. Krosoczka

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something. ~ Maxwell Maltz

As a child, I always chose a false nose and some face paint and a wig for my birthday. ~ Ashley Jensen

Happy birthday," she said. "And next time? Eat the stupid cupcake. ~ Rachel Caine

I like birthday cake. It's so symbolic. It's a tempting symbol to load with something more complicated than just 'Happy birthday!' because it's this emblem of childhood and a happy day. ~ Aimee Bender

I love having my birthday at Australia Zoo. ~ Bindi Irwin

After you're finished celebrating your 60th birthday, feel free to stop supporting your children, and start supporting your parents! ~ Joe Dean

Shouldn't be having a birthday party two weeks after your birthday ... Okay, three days, no more than that though, it's not your birthday anymore! There's gotta be a time, there's gotta be a cutoff point where you can't have birthday parties. You're so desperate for a party that you have to have a party two weeks after? Wait till next year, you missed it! ~ Larry David

I did a cake for the 60th birthday of Elton John, for Britney Spears' 27th birthday and for the 'Circus' album she put out - the cake had circus themes. I prepared a cake for a surprise 82nd birthday event for the architect Frank Gehry; the cake was comprised of mini-replicas of his buildings. ~ Ron Ben-Israel

Happy Birthday Seaweed Brain ~ Rick Riordan

If you want to look young and thin on your birthday. Hang around a bunch of old fat people. ~ Anthony

I remember when I was working at Sprint, I'd work on my birthday, New Year's Day, and even Christmas Eve. I'm just used to working on my birthday, so I'll be celebrating it afterward. ~ Prince Royce

My father was a legendary copywriter. He wrote 'Timex Takes a Licking and Keeps on Ticking.' He named Earth Day 'Earth Day.' It falls on his birthday, April 22. Earth Day, birthday. So the idea came easily. ~ Sarah Koenig

A Dad gives hope
When life is low
A Dad's a place
Where you can go
A Dad is honest
A Dad is true
A Dad is precious
My DAD is You
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday to YOU
Happy Birthday , Happy Birthday
Happy Birthday to YOU ~ John Walter Bratton

The summer of 2002 at the Wilson birthday party I met Van Dyke again and I made plans to have dinner with him. ~ Matthew Sweet

When is man strong until he feels alone? Colombe's Birthday ~ Robert Browning

They assessed my age and assigned me a birthday. ~ Davan Yahya Khalil

I see you're trying to distract me from the real point here," Magnus said instead. "You had a birthday - a perfect excuse for me to throw one of my famous parties - and you didn't even tell me about it? ~ Cassandra Clare

I could rent Caesar out at birthday parties. Halloween parties. I could take pictures of Caesar eating a piece of birthday cake. Or a picture of a kid riding Caesar on his birthday. We could build a saddle. ~ Pat Conroy

I used to go to musicals every birthday - that was my birthday present. We'd go to London, me and my two brothers and mum and dad. I think I saw 'Mamma Mia' about five times. ~ Lily James

I worked at an ice cream parlor called Chadwicks. We wore old-timey outfits and had to bang a drum, play a kazoo, and sing 'Happy Birthday' to people while giving them free birthday sundaes. Lots of ice cream scooping and $1 tips. ~ Amy Poehler

I am the guy dressing up in, you know, the caveman outfit for the kids' birthday parties. ~ Rob Lowe

My niece just turned one. I gave her a birthday card that read, "If you can read this, Happy Birthday! ~ Jarod Kintz

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party ~ Herdis Pala

One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late. ~ Pablo Picasso

Today you have won a thousand kisses. Happy birthday. ~ Auliq Ice

I like working on my birthday, so I always do. ~ Abhishek Bachchan

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important. ~ Franklin Pierce Adams

Happy birthday greetings and warmest wishes, too May today, tomorrow, everyday Be truly happy for you. ~ Margaret Brown

When I was a kid, for my birthday every year, my mother made me pasta bechamel, which is rigatoni with a white cream sauce. ~ Giada De Laurentiis

My happiest memory of childhood was my first birthday in reform school. This teacher took an interest in me. In fact, he gave me the first birthday presents I ever got: a box of Cracker Jacks and a can of ABC shoe polish. ~ Flip Wilson

If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry! ~ Ellen DeGeneres

Mirad had asked for peace for his birthday.
Imagine, a boy of thirteen who asks for peace as a birthday present.
When I heard that I cried. ~ Ad De Bont

Today, you're halfway to 100! Here's to optimism, whether it is realistic or not. Happy 50th birthday! ~ T. S. Eliot

Is it birthday weather for you, dear soul?
Is it fine your way,
With tall moon-daisies alight, and the mole
Busy, and elegant hares at play
By meadow paths where once you would stroll
In the flush of day? ~ Cecil Day-Lewis

Live not one's life as though one had a thousand years, but live each day as the last. ~ Marcus Aurelius

Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children. ~ Mindy Kaling

For Tim Burton's birthday I gave him a rainbow beetle. He loved it! ~ Eva Green

I met Leonardo DiCaprio and Busta Rhymes the same night, on my birthday in New York. ~ Jason Mitchell

I know it's not your birthday, but would you like some birthday dick? It's on sale today. ~ Jarod Kintz

I remember when the candle shop burned down. Everyone stood around singing 'Happy Birthday.' ~ Steven Wright

Hope your birthday, from morning to night is special for you, wonderful and bright. ~ Susan Smith

Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. ~ Sammy Hagar

Birthday Wishes Are sent your way! To wish you Such Wonderful Day! ~ Julie McGregor

It's my birthday, I'll get high if I want to. ~ Drake

When you realize tomorrow is never promised, every "today" is cherished. Embrace this special day with gratitude, hope, love and joy. Celebrate, content in the knowledge that God has granted you the BLESSING of another promising year to fulfill your dreams and claim the life you want and so deserve. - Happy Birthday! ~ Carlos Wallace

Happy birthday coz, you are the very best, I send this card, with lots and lots, of hugs, kisses and love ~ Susan Smith

After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now." ~ Henry Green

It's your Birthday Just do what You do best Chill out!! ~ Julie McGregor