Birthday Quotes, Poems, Wishes, Sayings & Verses

Birthday quotes, birthday poems, birthday wishes, birthday sayings and verses that are useful when writing a message or greeting in a children’s birthday card.   We’ve listed our favorite birthday quotes, poems and wishes for children’s birthday’s.  Wish them Happy Birthday with these fun sayings and verses!   You will also find belated sayings and wishes at the bottom of the page.

What you can do is often simply a matter of what you will do.
  - The Phantom Tollbooth by Norton Juster

Uncle Edisto always s  - Each Little Bird That Sings by Deborah Wiles

You have brains in your head.  You have feet in your shoes.  You can steer yourself any direction you choose. 
  - Oh! The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss

If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you. If we didn’t have birthdays, you wouldn’t be you.
If you’d never been born, well then what would you do?
If you’d never been born, well then what would you be?
You might be a fish! Or a toad in a tree!
You might be a doorknob! Or three baked potatoes!
You might be a bag full of hard green tomatoes.
Or worse than all that… Why, you might be a WASN’T!
A Wasn’t has no fun at all. No, he doesn’t.
A Wasn’t just isn’t. He just isn’t present.
But you… You ARE YOU! And, now isn’t that pleasant!
Happy Birthday To You! by Dr. Seuss

A person's a person, no matter how small.
  - Dr. Suess

Fun is good. - Dr. Suess

Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
   - Dr. Suess

Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
 - Jean Paul Richter

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
- Tom Wilson

The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
- Oscar Wilde

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
- Mark Twain

Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
  - Lucy Larcom

It takes a long time to grow young.
  - Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.
  - Pablo Picasso

A characteristic of the normal child is he doesn't act that way very often.
  - Anonymous

Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
  - Tom Stoppard

Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.
  - Mark Twain

We grow too soon old and too late smart.
  - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
  - Abraham Lincoln

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
  -Chili Davis

You are only young once, but you can be immature for a lifetime.
  - John P. Grier

The more things change, the more they remain the same.
  - Alphonse Karr

May you live all the days of your life.
  - Jonathan Swift

Why is a birthday cake the only food you can blow on and spit on and everybody rushes to get a piece?
  - Bobby Kelton

Quotes, poems, wishes, verses, sayings and messages for kids cards

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it. 
  - Harold Hulbert

Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn't music. 
  - William Stafford

Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see. 
  - John W. Whitehead, The Stealing of America, 1983

Every child comes with the message that God is not yet discouraged of man. 
  - Rabindranath Tagore

Boy, n.:  a noise with dirt on it. 
  - Not Your Average Dictionary

What a difference a day makes!  Happy Birthday

"When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
  - Mark Twain

Being yourself is being the person everyone else wants you to be
  - Anonymous

Happy Birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you smell like a monkey, and you look like one too.
- Anonymous

Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.   - Mickey Mouse Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.   - Dr Seuss Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So... get on your way.   - Dr. Seuss The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.   - Dr. Seuss

Think left and think right and think low and think high.
Oh, me thinks you can think up if only you try.
  - Dr. Seuss

And now,” cried Max, let the wild rumpus start!
  - Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak

Where you love somebody a whole lot, and you know that person loves you, that’s the most beautiful place in the world.
  - The Most Beautiful Place in the World by Ann     Cameron

You just think lovely wonderful thoughts, Peter explained, “and they lift you up in the air.
  - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie

When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionably.
  - Walt Disney

Yesterday is history Tomorrow is mystery Today is a gift.
  - Eleanor Roosevelt

How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?
- Satchel Paige

Don't do anything embarrassing on your birthday this year. You don't have as much time to live it down as you used to.
  - Unknown

Now We are Six
When I was one, I had just begun.
When I was two, I was nearly new.
When I was three, I was hardly me.
When I was four, I was not much more.
When I was five, I was just alive.
But now I'm six, and clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six, forever and ever.
  - A.A. Milne

Now We Are Six
When I was one,
I had just begun.
When I was two,
I was nearly new.
When I was three,
I was hardly me.
When I was four,
I was not much more.
When I was five,
I was just alive.
But now I am six,
I'm as clever as clever.
So I think I'll be six
now and forever.
  - A.A. Milne

Sayings, Wishes and Wording for Children’s Birthday Cards

Make a fun anagram out of the birthday child’s name.  Use one descriptive word for every letter.
Example: Kristin
Kind
Radiant
Interesting
Sweet
Terrific
Incredible
Nice

May this year be your best ever.

May your birthday dreams and wishes come true.

A year older and a year better.

Here's to one more year of experience.

A birthday celebration and the gathering of friends, 
Wishing you great happiness and a joy that never ends.

Happy Birthday and many happy returns of the day.

May the best of your past be the worst of your future.

Hope your birthday blossoms into dreams come true!

I hope that for every candle on your cake you get a wonderful surprise.

Because you're you, I'm celebrating today!

May your birthday be filled with excitement, joy, and laughter.

Remember, you'll be ____ (insert age of child)  for only one year but you'll be awesome forever.

May your birthday be as magnificent!

The more candles, the bigger the wish.

Wishing you everything happy for your birthday.

Growing old is mandatory... Growing up is optional!

The Birthday Cow Song
Happy Mooday to you,
Happy Mooday to you.
Happy Mooday
Dear Yooday,
Happy Mooday to you!

Happy Birthday Song
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday to you,
Happy Birthday dear _________,
Happy Birthday to you.

Happy, happy birthday
This songs from me to you
So happy happy birthday
And now my song is through.

May today be filled with all the things you wished for.

Belated birthday sayings, quotes, messages, wishes and verses belated birthday cards

Happy Belated Early Birthday!

I didn't forget your birthday, I'm just fashionably late.

I may have forgotten your birthday, but I didn't forget about you!

I didn't forget about your birthday; I just wanted to help prolong the celebration.

Your birthday came and went
Here's the card I should have sent

I didn't really forget your special day, I just figured you deserved more than one.

Fashionably late. Hope it was great.

I may have forgotten your birthday, but at least I remember that I forgot your birthday.

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