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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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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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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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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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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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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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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
