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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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