quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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quotes and sayings
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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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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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
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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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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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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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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Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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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
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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