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
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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