Aging/Birthdays

• "Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young."
  Henry Ford
• "It takes a long time to become young."
  Pablo Picasso
• "None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm."
  Henry David Thoreau
• "Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
  Mark Twain
• "Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art."
  Stanislaw Lec
• "All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
  George Harrison
• "God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well."
  Voltaire
• "Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words."
  Plautus
• "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
  Dr. Seuss
• "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
  Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

New Baby

• "I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
  Eleanor Roosevelt
• "If you can give your child only one gift, let it be enthusiasm."
  Bruce Barton
• "Sometimes,' said Pooh, 'the smallest things take up the most room in your heart."
  A.A. Milne
• "A baby is born with a need to be loved – and never outgrows it."
  Frank A. Clark
• "Hush, my dear, lie still and slumber, holy angels guard thy bed! Heavenly blessing without number gently falling on thy head."
  Isaac Watts
• "Babies are such a nice way to start people."
  Don Herrold
• "A new baby is like the beginning of all things – wonder, hope, a dream of possibilities."
  Edna J. Leshan
• "The best thing to spend on your children is time."
  Arnold Glasgow
• "All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking your children into a house with white carpet is one of them."
  Erma Bombeck
• "Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility."
  Kate Douglas Wiggin
• "Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body."
  Elizabeth Stone
• "Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You."
  Dr Seuss
• "There is only one pretty child in the world and every mother has it"
  Chinese proverb
• "If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales."
  Albert Einstein
• "There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle."
  Albert Einstein
• "Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
  Pablo Picasso

Bar/Bat-Mitzvah

• "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
  Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are."
  E.E. Cummings
• "Whatever you are, be a good one."
  Abraham Lincoln