Thirty Birthday Greetings

photo by Vanessa Escobedo Barba

Today's a very special day in the life of my big sister! It's her very last birthday as Rachel Schmale. She celebrates 3 decades of life today, and in two weeks will change her name permenantly.

For all the years I haven't gotten her a birthday card, I went ahead and found thirty birthday wishes/greetings/facts for my sweet sister. Enjoy!

1. A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip.

2. May you live to be a hundred and may the last voice you hear be mine. - Frank Sinatra

3. Old age is not for sissies. - Malcolm Forbes

4. Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. - Father Larry Lorenzoni

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

6. The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. - Lucille ball

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

8. Since your last birthday you will have had about 1,460 dreams.

9. The man who views the world at fifty the same as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. - Muhammad Ali

10. Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. - Plautus

11. We are all born naked and screaming and if you're lucky that sort of thing won't stop there.

12. Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.- Georges Clemenceau

13. There is still no cure for the common birthday. - John Glenn

14. When you turn thirty, a whole new thing happens: you see yourself acting like you parents. - Blair Sabol

15. No wise man ever wished to be younger.- Jonathan Swift

16. What could be more beautiful than a dear old lady growing wise with age? Every age can be enchanting, provided you live within it. - Brigitte Bardot

17. Time and Tide wait for no man,but time always stands still for a woman of thirty.- Robert Frost

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

19. Birthdays are like boogers, the more you have the harder it is to breathe.

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

21. After 30, a body has a mind of its own.- Bette Midler

22. Everything I know I learned after I was thirty. - Georges Clemenceau

23. Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

24. Age is like underwear...it creeps up on you!

25. The most special thing about this card..Is the person holding it.

26. More people celebrate their birthdays in August than in any other month (about 9% of all people).

27. Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

28. Since your last birthday 31,536,000 seconds have passed.

29. The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. - Hervey Allen

30. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Rae!

I love you so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so so much!