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
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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