Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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!)
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
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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