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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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
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
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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
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