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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through 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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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