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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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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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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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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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