Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
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
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
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