The Worst Birthday Quotes

#1. Turning one hundred was the worst birthday of my life. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. Turning 101 was not so bad. Once you're past that century mark, it's just not as shocking.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

#2. I had the worst birthday party ever when I was a child because my parents hired a pony to give rides. And these ponies are never in good health. But this one dropped dead. It just wasn't much fun after that. One kid would sit on him and the rest of us would drag him around.

Rita Rudner

#3. Without family, Tover had spent many birthdays in lonely places, but being sold by his lover to a bunch of unscrupulous pirates definitely won the prize as being the worst birthday present ever received.

Astrid Amara

#4. The worst gift is a fruitcake. There is only one fruitcake in the entire world, and people keep sending it to each other.

Johnny Carson

#5. The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are.

Anne Lamott

#6. But mathematics is the sister, as well as the servant, of the arts and is touched by the same madness and genius.

Marston Morse

#7. I can write orchestrations, but I can't sight-read music and play at the same time. I don't have enough facility.

Elvis Costello

#8. The designer of a new kind of system must participate fully in the implementation.

Donald Knuth

#9. Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods, new points of view. It is as though people would rather die than change.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#10. The ultimate Truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They're not the Way.

Bodhidharma

#11. Progress is precisely that which rules and regulations did not foresee.

Ludwig Von Mises

#12. The smoke shifted direction and I breathed in. Breathed out. On the inhale I was angry. On the exhale ... there it was again. Fear. The fear made me angry and the anger made me afraid and I wasn't sure who he was anymore. Or who I was.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#13. The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching the menu of benefits, so in 1956 Congress entitled women to collect benefits at 62, extending the entitlement to men in 1961.

George Will

#14. But I did make some money doing commercials. I did fourteen in one year.

Dabney Coleman

#15. Conscious dreaming allows us to fold time and travel into the future or the past, as well as explore other life experiences. Beyond all of this, it may allow us to be present at the place of creation - the plane on which the events and circumstances of physical life are born.

Robert Moss

#16. The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever,

Taylor Swift

#17. Goodness is a perpetual quantity, all penetrating, all searching, impartial, noble, a comfort in distress, a refuge to the weak, a tower and a defense to all who wish to be right and to do right.

Joseph Parker

#18. I think once you're past 30 you shouldn't wear a lot of glitter.

Chloe Sevigny