great quotes
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great quotes
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great quotes
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great quotes
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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 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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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