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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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
