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sad quotes
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sad quotes
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sad quotes
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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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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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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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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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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
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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