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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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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 father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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