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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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 carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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