--- title: "1 Having Birthday Quotes By A.M. Homes" description: "1 Having Birthday quotes by A.M. Homes. Plus more from A.M. Homes and more Having Birthday sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/368/a-m-homes-12366_being-nice_the-weird-thing-about-having-your-birthd_864340.png" --- > [The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for sure, no one at school knows it's your birthday anymore. It's not like when you're little…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-weird-thing-about-having-your-birthday-on-a-school-day-is-that-by/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/368/a-m-homes-12366_being-nice_the-weird-thing-about-having-your-birthd_864340.png) ## More by A.M. Homes > [Every family has a story that it tells itself, that it passes on to the children and grandchildren. The story grows over the years,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/every-family-has-a-story-that-it-tells-itself-that-it-passes-on-to/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“You can’t collect everything,” Pat says, putting the dress in with the giveaways. “Life is not a hobby.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/you-can-t-collect-everything-pat-says-putting-the-dress-in-with-the/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [It's my policy not to review funerals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/it-s-my-policy-not-to-review-funerals/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“I love my foot. If I had to send a part of myself to represent myself in some other country, or in some other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-love-my-foot-if-i-had-to-send-a-part-of-myself-to-represent-myself/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [The struggle is how to write optimistically when the world we're living in is not inherently optimistic. I love the idea of the family…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-struggle-is-how-to-write-optimistically-when-the-world-we-re/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/you-are-your-own-beginning-every-day-every-hour-every-minute-you/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [Birthday parties make me nervous as hell. They're one of those things where you're forced to be happy. And even if you're totally depressed,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/birthday-parties-make-me-nervous-as-hell-they-re-one-of-those-things/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“A fat old man has disturbed my day, coming to tell me that he has sold my childhood to a museum in Cincinnati.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/a-fat-old-man-has-disturbed-my-day-coming-to-tell-me-that-he-has-sold/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“The subjects range from the pastoral (sniffing of the butt of a melon to tell if it's ripe. and almost romantically lush descriptions of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-subjects-range-from-the-pastoral-sniffing-of-the-butt-of-a-melon/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [I really don't watch enough TV to know about the impact. In my experience as a TV writer, I would say is the exact…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-really-don-t-watch-enough-tv-to-know-about-the-impact-in-my/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [I am very interested in loyalty, even if the person to whom one is loyal is flawed, criminal, or otherwise in the wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/i-am-very-interested-in-loyalty-even-if-the-person-to-whom-one-is/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [The weird thing about having your birthday on a school day is that by the time you get to be ten, or eleven for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/the-weird-thing-about-having-your-birthday-on-a-school-day-is-that-by/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [My mind leaps to my theory about presidents - that there are two kinds, ones who have a lot of sex and the others…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/my-mind-leaps-to-my-theory-about-presidents-that-there-are-two-kinds/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [Philip Galanes makes his debut with a novel that is both heartbreaking and deftly comic, the story of a young man struggling with his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/philip-galanes-makes-his-debut-with-a-novel-that-is-both/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) > [“It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-m-homes/it-s-a-strange-city-filled-with-things-that-are-not-obvious/) [A.M. Homes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-m-homes/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/having-birthday/a-m-homes/#itemlist", "name": "1 Having Birthday Quotes By A.M. 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