Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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