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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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 birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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