He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
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
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. ~Herbert Asquith
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
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
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
