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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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 having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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