A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown


Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth

Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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!)
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

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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