---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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
-----------------
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
-----------------
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
-----------------
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
-----------------
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
-----------------
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
-----------------
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
-----------------
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!)
-----------------
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
-----------------
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
-----------------
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
-----------------
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
-----------------
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
-----------------
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
-----------------
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
-----------------
-----------------
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
-----------------
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
-----------------
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
-----------------
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
-----------------
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
-----------------
-----------------
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
-----------------
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
-----------------
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
-----------------
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
-----------------
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
-----------------
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
-----------------
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
-----------------
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
-----------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
-----------------
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
No comments:
Post a Comment