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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
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
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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
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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