He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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!)
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
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
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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