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
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
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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
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
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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!)
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
