---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
-----------------
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
-----------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
-----------------
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
-----------------
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
-----------------
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
-----------------
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
-----------------
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
-----------------
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
-----------------
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
-----------------
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
-----------------
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
-----------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
-----------------
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
-----------------
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
-----------------
-----------------
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
-----------------
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
-----------------
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
-----------------
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
-----------------
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
-----------------
-----------------
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
-----------------
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
-----------------
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
-----------------
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
-----------------
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
-----------------
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
-----------------
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
-----------------
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
-----------------
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
-----------------
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
No comments:
Post a Comment