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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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 diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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