quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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
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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
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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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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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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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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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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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