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Be sure to incorporate your pooch into your daily activities to make her feel like a true family member. You can do this by signing your dog's name - or her paw print - on birthday cards, by getting 'from our dog to your dog' holiday cards, or by including your dog when asked the number of family members in your household. These small, considerate actions will make you an ideal petowner.
Sep 10, 2025
There are times I think of us all and I wish we were back in second grade. Not really that young. But I wish it felt like second grade. I’m not saying everyone was friends back then. But we all got along. There were groups, but they didn’t really divide. At the end of the day, your class was your class, and you felt like you were a part of it. You had your friends and you had the other kids, but you didn’t really hate anyone longer than a couple of hours. Everybody got a birthday card. In second grade, we were all in it together. Now we’re all apart.
I occasionally get birthday cards from fans. But it's often the same message: They hope it's my last.
This is a Happy Birthday card, Made with lots of love by me It's to a Very Important Parent A VIP... ...and you are she
I saw a birthday card the other day, and it said, "If you didn't know how old you were, how old would you think you were?" I started changing it in my mind right away to, "If you didn't know how sick you were, how sick would you think you were?"
There's nothing funnier than getting a death threat via MySpace. Why don't you just write it in a children's birthday card.
I went to the little church in the country after ten years in the city. And part of my dream was to sit on people's front porches with glasses of iced tea, and all that happened. I was able to send birthday cards to everyone in the parish and able to know everyone who was there on Sunday by name. And that was what I'd been looking for.
All three [of my grandkids] earn money around the house, and all three spend their own money. Now I've noticed that when they have to spend their own money on birthday cards, they have decided that homemade cards are so much nicer.
My family suffered. My hair turned up in every corner, every drawer, every meal. Even in the rice puddings Tessie made, covering each little bowl with wax paper before putting it away in the fridge--even into these prophylactically secure desserts my hair found its way! Jet black hairs wound themselves around bars of soap. They lay pressed like flower stems between the pages of books. They turned up in eyeglass cases, birthday cards, once--I swear--inside an egg Tessie had just cracked. The next-door neighbor's cat coughed up a hairball one day and the hair was not the cat's.
A friend never defends a husband who gets his wife an electric skillet for her birthday.
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.
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me card »">birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around the songs. They've got this thing called 'Floetry' where they all have to put in artwork. They've set up their own competitions and stuff which is kind of amazing.
"I'm going back!" I shouted, standing to put some distance between us in case I was yanking her chain too hard and she came after me. "I'll show him," I said, waving an arm. "I'll sneak in. I'll steal his freaking glasses and mail them back to him in a freaking birthday card!"
I've got some incredible fans actually - so loyal and they make me birthday cards and Christmas cards. I got this package of poems and artwork based around Jennifer Bofinger, media spokeswoman for the animal rights group People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said despite the shabby treatment of deer just loves it!
I always knew that sooner or later there would come somebody like Woody Guthrie who could make a great song every week. Dylan certainly had a social agenda, but he was such a good poet that most of his attempts were head and shoulders above things that I and others were trying to do. ... If I had an address, I'd send him a birthday card saying, 'keep on going.'
Her blog was doing well, with thousands of unique visitors each month, and she was earning good speaking fees, and she had a fellowship at Princeton and a relationship with Blaine - "You are the absolute love of my life," he'd written in her last birthday card - and yet there was cement in her soul. It had been there for a while, an early morning disease of fatigue, shapeless desires, brief imaginary glints of other lives she could be living, that over the months melded into a piercing homesickness.
We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
The first hundred years are the hardest.
With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
How old would you be if you didn't know how old you are?
When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.
Like many women my age, I am 28 years old.
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words.
There is still no cure for the common birthday.
At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment.
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.
You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.
Whatever with the past has gone, The best is always yet to come.
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Time and tide wait for no man.
Time and tide wait for no man, but time always stands still for a woman of 30.
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.
The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time.
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age.
The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
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