A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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
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