love sayings quotes
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love sayings quotes
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love sayings quotes
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love sayings quotes
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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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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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Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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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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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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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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The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age. ~Lucille Ball
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There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~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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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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 father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~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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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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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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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
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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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I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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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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Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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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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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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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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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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Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
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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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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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You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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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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Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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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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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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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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Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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