One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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