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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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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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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 father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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