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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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 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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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