poems
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poems
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poems
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poems
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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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
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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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
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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
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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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
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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!)
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First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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
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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!)
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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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
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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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
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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