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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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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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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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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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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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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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