A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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
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
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
