Barun Sobti Quotes

I love a card. You know, cards? At birthdays? I collect them.

My birthday is a day when all I want is to bask in the love of my family and rarely accept offers for concerts and shows if they are to be held on this day.

I hate celebrating birthdays.

I hate birthdays. I thought that I only hated my own birthday, and then I realized that I hate my children's birthdays too.

My mom won't let me buy high-fashion stuff unless it's TK Maxx or a birthday occasion.

There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know.

I'm not a big birthday guy; I never have been.

Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom's homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past.

In Italy, everybody buys silver for every special occasion. Baptisms, weddings, you get silver.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.

We all have special numbers in our lives, and 4 is that for me. It's the day I was born. My mother's birthday, and a lot of my friends' birthdays, are on the fourth; April 4 is my wedding date.

Cakes are special. Every birthday, every celebration ends with something sweet, a cake, and people remember. It's all about the memories.

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.

My 40th birthday I held in an old-age home. My 50th I had at Pravda before it opened in New York. My 60th I had at Pastis. For my 70th, I thought, 'I don't need to have a celebrity party this year. I'm going to go take my oldest, closest friends to Paris.'

I've always loved watches. It's been the one thing that I've asked for, whether it was every Christmas or a birthday.

Ever since I got married, my acting career has taken a backseat.

Christmas to me, obviously, basketball is very important to me, but there are some days of the year where it's got to take a back seat to something.

Christmas is a special time of year for everyone - I remember getting my first BMX bike when I was a kid, and it was the best present ever.

When my mother was around, she would insist on celebrating my birthdays.

My birthday is always around Thanksgiving, and I always had to have turkey on my birthday. My mom was always, 'Let's celebrate your birthday on Thanksgiving.' My other siblings got to have special dinners they liked. I resented turkey. For a long time, I hated turkey. I've kind of gotten over it.

Life changed a lot after marriage. I am not the same person as before.

When it comes to birthdays, I think there are two camps. There are people like me, who choose to treat it like any other day, and then there are the 'birthday people.' You know, those people who claim the full month in which they were born as their own.

Not knowing my birthday had never seemed strange. I knew I'd been born near the end of September, and each year I picked a day, one that didn't fall on a Sunday because it's no fun spending your birthday in church.

I never believed in birthday parties.

There is something about saying, 'We always do this,' which helps keep the years together. Time is such an elusive thing that if we keep on meaning to do something interesting, but never do it, year would follow year with no special thoughtfulness being expressed in making gifts, surprises, charming table settings, and familiar, favorite food. Tradition is a good gift intended to guard the best gifts.