{"id":11038,"date":"2015-07-14T12:09:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/?p=11038"},"modified":"2015-07-14T12:09:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T16:09:23","slug":"memorable-aging-birthday-quotes-from-famous-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/memorable-aging-birthday-quotes-from-famous-people.html","title":{"rendered":"Memorable Aging &#038; Birthday Quotes from Famous People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>Introduction<\/em><\/strong><em>: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog article, Mary shares some of the interesting and\/or funny quotes about birthdays and aging that she found in old newspapers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>While researching birthdays and aging in GenealogyBank\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/gbnk\/newspapers\/?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=blog&amp;utm_campaign=%20SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;s_referrer=social&amp;s_siteloc=blog&amp;s_trackval=%20SM_Blog_txtlnk_2014_00&amp;kbid=69919&amp;pq=1&amp;prebuy=no&amp;intver=&amp;CCPRODCODE=\">Historical Newspaper Archives<\/a>, I came across some delightful quotes from famous people. Some are modern, some are historical and others are just plain hysterical!<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11039\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11039\" style=\"width: 334px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0206-1898-birthday-sarcasm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11039\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0206-1898-birthday-sarcasm.png\" alt=\"cartoon about birthdays, Omaha World-Herald newspaper cartoon 6 February 1898\" width=\"334\" height=\"510\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0206-1898-birthday-sarcasm.png 334w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0206-1898-birthday-sarcasm-196x300.png 196w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 334px) 100vw, 334px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11039\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), 6 February 1898, section 3, page 23<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Have fun using these quotes in blogs or while making \u201cHappy Birthday\u201d cards. If you have some of your own birthday quotes to share, please post them in the comments section of this blog.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Famous People Birthday &amp; Gift Quotes<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.\u201d &#8211;Adele<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI binge when I\u2019m happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I\u2019m at a birthday party.\u201d &#8211;Kirstie Alley<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI like to go to anybody else\u2019s birthday, and if I\u2019m invited I\u2019m a good guest. But I never celebrate my birthdays. I really don\u2019t care.\u201d &#8211;Mikhail Baryshnikov<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.\u201d &#8211;Erma Bombeck<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11040\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11040\" style=\"width: 536px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/plain-dealer-newspaper-0419-1896-birthday-gifts-cartoon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11040\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/plain-dealer-newspaper-0419-1896-birthday-gifts-cartoon.png\" alt=\"cartoon about birthday gifts, Plain Dealer newspaper cartoon 19 April 1896\" width=\"536\" height=\"574\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/plain-dealer-newspaper-0419-1896-birthday-gifts-cartoon.png 536w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/plain-dealer-newspaper-0419-1896-birthday-gifts-cartoon-280x300.png 280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11040\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), 19 April 1896, page 26<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cThere are 364 days when you might get unbirthday presents\u2026and only one for birthday presents, you know.\u201d&#8211;Lewis Carroll (AKA Charlie Lutwidge Dodgson)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI don\u2019t pay attention to the number of birthdays. It\u2019s weird when I say I\u2019m 53. It just is crazy that I\u2019m 53. I think I\u2019m very immature. I feel like a kid. That\u2019s why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can\u2019t do certain things anymore \u2013 like doing the plank for 10 minutes.\u201d &#8211;Ellen DeGeneres who was born 26 January 1958<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman\u2019s birthday but never remembers her age.\u201d &#8211;Robert Frost<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11041\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11041\" style=\"width: 559px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0420-1902-spinster-cartoon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0420-1902-spinster-cartoon.png\" alt=\"birthday cartoon, Omaha World-Herald birthday cartoon 20 April 1902\" width=\"559\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0420-1902-spinster-cartoon.png 559w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0420-1902-spinster-cartoon-300x279.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/omaha-world-herald-newspaper-0420-1902-spinster-cartoon-323x300.png 323w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11041\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omaha World-Herald (Omaha, Nebraska), 20 April 1902, page 31<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIn 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood\u2019s Walk of Fame.\u201d &#8211;Annette Funicello<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThere is still no cure for the common birthday.\u201d &#8211;John Glenn<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAll the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much.\u201d &#8211;George Harrison<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11042\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11042\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0826-1934-helen-hayes-birthday.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0826-1934-helen-hayes-birthday.png\" alt=\"article about birthdays in Hollywood, Evening Star newspaper article 26 August 1934\" width=\"386\" height=\"496\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0826-1934-helen-hayes-birthday.png 386w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0826-1934-helen-hayes-birthday-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11042\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 26 August 1934, page 49<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMoney is appropriate, and one size fits all.\u201d &#8211;William Randolph Hearst on suggestions for gifts<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe way I see it, you should live every day like it\u2019s your birthday.\u201d &#8211;Paris Hilton<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou know you\u2019re getting older when the candles cost more than the cake.\u201d &#8211;Bob Hope<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYour children need your presence more than your presents.\u201d &#8211;Jesse Jackson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy biggest hero, Gregory Peck, was my birthday present on April 14, 1973. I just sat and stared at him.\u201d &#8211;Loretta Lynn<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAny time women come together with a collective intention, it\u2019s a powerful thing. Whether it\u2019s sitting down making a quilt, in a kitchen preparing a meal, in a club reading the same book, or around the table playing cards, or planning a birthday party, when women come together with a collective intention, magic happens.\u201d &#8211;Phylicia Rashad<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019m not going to be caught around here for any fool celebration. To hell with birthdays!\u201d &#8211;Norman Rockwell<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI wish people would stop talking about my birthday.\u201d &#8211;George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11044\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11044\" style=\"width: 388px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evansville-courier-and-press-newspaper-0731-1938-birthday-quotes.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11044\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evansville-courier-and-press-newspaper-0731-1938-birthday-quotes.png\" alt=\"article about birthdays, Evansville Courier and Press newspaper article 31 July 1938\" width=\"388\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evansville-courier-and-press-newspaper-0731-1938-birthday-quotes.png 388w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evansville-courier-and-press-newspaper-0731-1938-birthday-quotes-300x148.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11044\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evansville Courier and Press (Evansville, Indiana), 31 July 1938, page 18<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cLove the giver more than the gift.\u201d &#8211;Brigham Young<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI think, at a child\u2019s birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.\u201d &#8211;Eleanor Roosevelt<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou know you\u2019re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It\u2019s like, \u2018see if you can blow this out.\u2019\u201d &#8211;Jerry Seinfeld<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe last birthday that\u2019s any good is 23.\u201d &#8211;Andy Rooney<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[search_box]<br \/>\n<strong>Famous People Quotes on Aging<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cIt\u2019s sad to grow old, but nice to ripen.\u201d &#8211;Brigitte Bardot<\/li>\n<li>\u201cA man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.\u201d &#8211;John Barrymore<\/li>\n<li>\u201cGrow old along with me! The best is yet to be!\u201d &#8211;Robert Browning<\/li>\n<li>\u201cLife is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.\u201d &#8211;Truman Capote<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOld age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you\u2019ve got to start young.\u201d &#8211;Fred Astaire<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-0714-2015-old-age-fred-astaire.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-0714-2015-old-age-fred-astaire.png\" alt=\"quote about aging from Fred Astaire\" width=\"599\" height=\"543\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-0714-2015-old-age-fred-astaire.png 599w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-0714-2015-old-age-fred-astaire-300x272.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/photo-0714-2015-old-age-fred-astaire-331x300.png 331w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cI can\u2019t go back to yesterday \u2013 because I was a different person then.\u201d &#8211;Lewis Carroll (AKA Charlie Lutwidge Dodgson) from <em>Alice\u2019s Adventures in Wonderland<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cOld age isn\u2019t so bad when you consider the alternative.\u201d &#8211;Maurice Chevalier<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWe turn not older with years, but newer every day.\u201d &#8211;Emily Dickinson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt is never too late to be what you might have been.\u201d &#8211;George Eliot<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI\u2019ll keep singing \u2019till I die.\u201d &#8211;Bing Crosby<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11046\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11046\" style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0628-1933-bing-crosby.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0628-1933-bing-crosby.png\" alt=\"quote about aging from Bing Crosby, Evening Star newspaper article 28 June 1933\" width=\"451\" height=\"91\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0628-1933-bing-crosby.png 451w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/evening-star-newspaper-0628-1933-bing-crosby-300x61.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 451px) 100vw, 451px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11046\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evening Star (Washington, D.C.), 28 June 1933, page 10<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cAll my possessions for one moment of time.\u201d &#8211;Queen Elizabeth<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe years teach much which the days never knew.\u201d &#8211;Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAn old young man will be a young old man.\u201d &#8211;Benjamin Franklin (AKA Poor Richard)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAt twenty years of age, the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.\u201d &#8211;Benjamin Franklin (AKA Poor Richard)<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYouth is pert and positive, Age modest and doubting; So ears of corn when young and bright, stand bold upright, But hang their heads when weighty, full and ripe.\u201d &#8211;Benjamin Franklin (AKA Poor Richard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11047\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11047\" style=\"width: 464px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/daily-inter-ocean-newspaper-1020-1895-benjamin-franklin.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/daily-inter-ocean-newspaper-1020-1895-benjamin-franklin.png\" alt=\"article about Benjamin Franklin, Daily Inter Ocean newspaper article 20 October 1895\" width=\"464\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/daily-inter-ocean-newspaper-1020-1895-benjamin-franklin.png 464w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/daily-inter-ocean-newspaper-1020-1895-benjamin-franklin-218x300.png 218w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 464px) 100vw, 464px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11047\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois), 20 October 1895, page 25<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMen do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.\u201d &#8211;Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOld age is fifteen years older than I am.\u201d &#8211;Oliver Wendell Holmes<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMiddle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.\u201d &#8211;Bob Hope<\/li>\n<li>\u201cForty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.\u201d &#8211;Victor Hugo<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAnd in the end, it\u2019s not the years in your life that count. It\u2019s the life in your years.\u201d &#8211;Abraham Lincoln<\/li>\n<li>\u201cWhatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.\u201d &#8211;Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe older you get the stronger the wind gets \u2013 and it\u2019s always in your face.\u201d &#8211;Jack Nicklaus<\/li>\n<li>\u201cAge is a case of mind over matter. If you don\u2019t mind, it don\u2019t matter.\u201d &#8211;Satchel Paige<\/li>\n<li>\u201cHow old would you be if you didn\u2019t know how old you were?\u201d &#8211;Satchel Paige<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIt takes a long time to become young.\u201d &#8211;Pablo Picasso<\/li>\n<li>\u201cI was forced to live far beyond my years when just a child, now I have reversed the order and I intend to remain young indefinitely.\u201d &#8211;Mary Pickford<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYouth is just wasted on young people.\u201d &#8211;George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>\u201cTo me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I eye&#8217;d, Such seems your beauty still.\u201d &#8211;William Shakespeare<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in manhood just, in old age prudent.\u201d &#8211;Socrates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<figure id=\"attachment_11048\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11048\" style=\"width: 511px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/camden-mail-and-general-advertiser-newspaper-0521-1834-socrates.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11048\" src=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/camden-mail-and-general-advertiser-newspaper-0521-1834-socrates.png\" alt=\"article about Socrates, Camden Mail and General Advertiser newspaper article 21 May 1834\" width=\"511\" height=\"117\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/camden-mail-and-general-advertiser-newspaper-0521-1834-socrates.png 511w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/camden-mail-and-general-advertiser-newspaper-0521-1834-socrates-300x69.png 300w, https:\/\/www.genealogybank.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/camden-mail-and-general-advertiser-newspaper-0521-1834-socrates-500x114.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 511px) 100vw, 511px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11048\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Camden Mail and General Advertiser (Camden, New Jersey), 21 May 1834, page 4<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMay you live all the days of your life.\u201d &#8211;Jonathan Swift<\/li>\n<li>\u201cToo bad that youth is wasted on the young.\u201d &#8211;Mark Twain.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe first half of life consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity.\u201d &#8211;Mark Twain<\/li>\n<li>\u201cYou only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.\u201d &#8211;Mae West<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThose whom the gods love grow young.\u201d &#8211;Oscar Wilde<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMy 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.\u201d &#8211;Flip Wilson<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThe more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.\u201d &#8211;Oprah Winfrey<\/li>\n<li>\u201cFrom our birthday, until we die, is but the winking of an eye.\u201d &#8211;William Butler Yeats<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Memorable Songs &amp; Books<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>May God bless and keep you always<br \/>\nMay your wishes all come true<br \/>\nMay you always do for others<br \/>\nAnd let others do for you<br \/>\nMay you build a ladder to the stars<br \/>\nAnd climb on every rung<br \/>\nMay you stay forever young<br \/>\nForever young, forever young<br \/>\nMay you stay forever young.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Bob Dylan from the song \u201cMay You Stay Forever Young\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They say it\u2019s your birthday<br \/>\nIt\u2019s my birthday too, yeah<br \/>\nThey say it\u2019s your birthday<br \/>\nWe\u2019re gonna have a good time<br \/>\nI\u2019m glad it\u2019s your birthday<br \/>\nHappy birthday to you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;John Lennon &amp; Paul McCartney from the song \u201cBirthday\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Time is on my side, yes it is<br \/>\nTime is on my side, yes it is<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Jerry Ragovoy (AKA Jimmy Norman) from the Rolling Stones\u2019 song \u201cTime Is on My Side\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8211;Dr. Seuss (AKA Theodor Seuss Geisel) from the book \u201cHappy Birthday to You!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Articles:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/using-newspaper-birthday-announcements-for-genealogy-research.html\">Using Newspaper Birthday Announcements for Genealogy Research<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/tips-for-researching-birthdays-birthday-notices-in-newspapers.html\">Tips for Researching Birthdays &amp; Birthday Notices in Newspapers<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.genealogybank.com\/do-you-celebrate-birthday-traditions-like-your-ancestors-did.html\">Do You Celebrate Birthday Traditions Like Your Ancestors Did?<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[bottom_post_ad]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Introduction: Mary Harrell-Sesniak is a genealogist, author and editor with a strong technology background. In this blog article, Mary shares some of the interesting and\/or funny quotes about birthdays and aging that she found in old newspapers. 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