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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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