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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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