quotes to live by
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quotes to live by
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quotes to live by
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quotes to live by
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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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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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 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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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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