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 is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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