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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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
