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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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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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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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