life quotes
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life quotes
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life quotes
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life quotes
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
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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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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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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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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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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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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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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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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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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We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
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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
