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love words
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love words
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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 is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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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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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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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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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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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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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 still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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