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
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
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
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
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
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
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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