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Tom Cruise portrays 'good Nazi ' Claus von Stauffenberg in his latest film

A smiling Claus von Stauffenberg with fellow conspirator Albrecht Mertz von

Claus Schenk Graf von Stauffenberg was executed for his masterminding the

I'm sixty years of age.  That's 16 Celsius.  ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.  ~Chili Davis

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

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!)

It kills you to see them grow up.  But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.  ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

The arms of Claus Philipp Maria Schenk Count von Stauffenberg,

Cruise of course plays von Stauffenberg (you can easily tell by the patch

says Tom Cruise who plays Count Claus von Stauffenberg

[left] and German army officer Count Claus Schenk von Stauffenberg

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat.  Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound.  Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together.  Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.  ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age.  Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.  ~Tom Wilson

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith

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Brad Davis as Count Claus von Stauffenberg

The wedding day of Count and Countess von Stauffenberg, the union of too

DiD Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg just out of the box

movie Valkyrie (starring Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg),

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown

I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now.  ~Author Unknown

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William Wordsworth

The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.  ~Jerry M. Wright

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

which stars Tom Cruise as Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg,

Count von Stauffenberg: “We Live in a Society of Lemmings”

Claus Schenk Count von Stauffenberg, now best known for being played by Tom

Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg's portrait as it is in the German

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

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland

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

Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed.  ~Charles Schulz

Eye patch is reminiscent of Count Claus Von Stauffenberg

Enter Tom Cruise, otherwise known as Count Claus von Stauffenberg,

Since the beginning of 1942 Colonel Count Claus von Stauffenberg shared the

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.  ~Author Unknown

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.  ~Herbert Asquith

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