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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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