Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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
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
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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