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!)
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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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