{"quotes":[{"text":"I'm one of those people who had Christmas and my birthday always combined, and generally, my birthday was pretty much ignored. But my parents are always good about making some kind of special effort to make me feel like I also have a birthday that exists.","author":"Noel Wells","tags":["birthday","good","parents "],"id":8216,"author_id":"Noel+Wells"},{"text":"A happy birthday is measured not in the amount of gifts one gets, but in the amount love one receives.","author":"Todd Stocker","tags":["birthday","gifts","inspirational","love","motivational"],"id":12638,"author_id":"Todd+Stocker"},{"text":"If we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday at a time of presidential inaugurals, this is thanks to Ronald Reagan who created the holiday, and not to the Democratic Congress of the Carter years, which rejected it.","author":"David Horowitz","tags":["birthday","time","celebrate "],"id":13055,"author_id":"David+Horowitz"},{"text":"For certain you can be helped, should you accept it. But as far as being made...No one can do that. This occurred on the day you were born. An earth day is not a birth day. Own what you create as well as what you break.","author":"T.F. Hodge","tags":["birth","birthday","born","create","creativity","earth-day","responsibility"],"id":14146,"author_id":"T.F.+Hodge"},{"text":"I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.","author":"Suzi Quatro","tags":["birthday","me","husband "],"id":14564,"author_id":"Suzi+Quatro"},{"text":"God gave us the gift of life it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.","author":"Voltaire","tags":["life","birthday","gift "],"id":17249,"author_id":"Voltaire"},{"text":"You’re right. The fact that the entire party of fifty guests caught you and Jill Moench kissing in the closet was a complete misunderstanding.' Theo snorted, turning to Penny, 'His girlfriend certainly got a surprise at her party. And it wasn’t the kind where everyone jumps out from behind the couch to yell, ‘Surprise!","author":"Katlyn Charlesworth","tags":["birthday","girlfriend","kiss","surprise"],"id":17370,"author_id":"Katlyn+Charlesworth"},{"text":"I played rugby for years, and I had a rugby jacket that I lost when I was 14. Somehow, my brother found it in storage 15 years later, and he gave it back to me for my 30th birthday. That was amazing and probably one of the best gifts I've ever received.","author":"Ryan Reynolds","tags":["birthday","best","brother "],"id":17981,"author_id":"Ryan+Reynolds"},{"text":"A good man measures his life not in the number of his years but in the quality of his friends.","author":"Todd Stocker","tags":["birthday","friends","friendship","inspirational","motivational"],"id":18449,"author_id":"Todd+Stocker"},{"text":"The cake had a trick candle that wouldn't go out, so I didn't get my wish. Which was just that it would always be like this, that my life could be a party just for me.","author":"Janet Fitch","tags":["birthday","happiness","hope","sentimentality","wishes","wishing"],"id":19593,"author_id":"Janet+Fitch"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":198,"pages":20,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}