inspiring quotes
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inspiring quotes
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inspiring quotes
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inspiring quotes
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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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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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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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Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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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 wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~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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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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Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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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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It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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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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A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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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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Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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