Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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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