positive quotes
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positive quotes
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positive quotes
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positive quotes
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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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
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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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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 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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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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