Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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!)
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
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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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