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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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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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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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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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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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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