words of love
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words of love
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words of love
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words of love
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Thanks to modern medical advances such as antibiotics, nasal spray, and Diet Coke, it has become routine for people in the civilized world to pass the age of 40, sometimes more than once. ~Dave Barry, "Your Disintegrating Body," Dave Barry Turns 40, 1990
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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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
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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
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Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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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!)
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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
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It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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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
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
