religious quotes
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religious quotes
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religious quotes
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religious quotes
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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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 having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
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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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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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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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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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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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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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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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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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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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
