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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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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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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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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
