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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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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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