quotes of love
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quotes of love
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quotes of love
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quotes of love
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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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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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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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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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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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A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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