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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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