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
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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