It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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
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
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
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
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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!)
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
