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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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 having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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