He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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