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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
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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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
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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 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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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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 Mendel Schneerson
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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
