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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
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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
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
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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
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
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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
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
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
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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