First Birthday Quotes

• When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Birthday, Party, Special

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.28, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Oh, give me back the good old days of fifty years ago,“ has been the cry ever since Adam's fifty-first birthday.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Years, Giving, Fifty

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.131, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Suddenly this camera, this thing, allowed me to move around the world in a certain kind of way, with a certain kind of purpose. (On receiving a camera for her twenty-first birthday)

  Carrie Mae Weems

  Moving, Firsts, Cameras

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• I saw Richard Linklater's film 'Slacker' for my twenty-first birthday. That was the moment when it all seemed possible. This guy gave me hope.

  Kevin Smith

  Birthday, Guy, Saws

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• Mi recuerdo más feliz de la infancia fue mi primer cumpleaños en el reformatorio. Este profesor se interesó por mí. De hecho, me hizo los primeros regalos de cumpleaños que recibí: una caja de Cracker Jacks y un bote de betún ABC.

  Flip Wilson

  Birthday, Teacher, Memories

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• You know who you remind me of? The kid cop in Lethal Weapon 3. You know, the one who says, 'it's my twenty-first birthday today', and right away you know he's dead meat?

  Jennifer Crusie

  Kids, Twenties, Meat

  Jennifer Crusie (2007). “Getting Rid Of Bradley”, p.36, MIRA

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• We placed the wreaths upon the splendid granite sarcophagus, and at its feet, and felt that only the earthly robe we loved so much was there. The pure, tender, loving spirit which loved us so tenderly, is above us - loving us, praying for us, and free from all suffering and woe - yes, that is a comfort, and that first birthday in another world must have been a far brighter one than any in this poor world below!

  Queen Victoria

  Love, Feet, Suffering

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• 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

  Birthday, Daughter, Cutting

  "Willie Geist 'devastated': His fave German chocolate cake isn't German!" by Scott Stump, www.today.com. February 22, 2013.

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• The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

  Larry Niven

  Padre, Hijo, Consejos

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