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
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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