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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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 first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)
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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 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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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