21st Birthday Sayings and Quotes

Turning 21 is a major milestone. For many it marks the official entry into adulthood and all the freedom and responsibility that comes with it. Celebrate the occasion with the collection of wise and insightful 21st birthday quotes below.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself. F Scott Fitzgerald
Live as long as you may. The first twenty years are the longest half of your life. Robert Southey
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. Mark Twain
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. Charles M. Schulz
At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable. Orson Welles
Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new. Sammy Hagar
Birthdays are nature's way of telling you to eat more cake. Jo Brand
We turn not older with years but newer every day. Emily Dickinson
Real birthdays are not annual affairs. Real birthdays are the days when we have a new birth. Ralph Parlette
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. Jean Paul Richter
All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much. George Harrison
You have one chance, one life and what you do with it is up to you. Peyton Sawyer
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln
It takes a long time to grow young. Pablo Picasso
You grow up the day you have your first real laugh yourself. Ethel Barrymore
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. Menachem M. Schneerson
Birthdays are a reward for having shown up 365 days in a row. It's like getting a badge for attendance. Gina Barreca
Nobody can hide their birthdays anymore, so there's no point in lying. Jessica Walter
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Dr. Seuss
Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years. Ausonius
There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why. William Barclay
You don't get older, you get better. Shirley Bassey
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been. Madeleine L'Engle
Let us celebrate the occasion with wine and sweet words. Plautus
The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. Larry Lorenzoni
The worst part about celebrating another birthday is the shock that you're only as well as you are. Anne Lamott
The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. Denis Waitley
It's your 21'st birthday, now you can do all the things you were already doing, but weren't supposed to be. unknown
The party is on my birthday, June 21— my 21st on the 21st, which is Midsummer's Day, the longest day of the year and the longest night for a lot of people who are helping to organize it. My father very kindly suggested having a party, although he's probably regretting it now. Prince William