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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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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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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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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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