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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller
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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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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
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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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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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 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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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
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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 birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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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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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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