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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
