May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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