Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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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