There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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
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!)
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Inflation is when you pay fifteen dollars for the ten-dollar haircut you used to get for five dollars when you had hair. ~Sam Ewing
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
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