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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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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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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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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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