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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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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
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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 kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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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!)
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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