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
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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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