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
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
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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