We advance in years somewhat in the manner of an invading army in a barren land; the age that we have reached, as the saying goes, we but hold with an outpost, and still keep open communications with the extreme rear and first beginnings of the march. ~Robert Louis Stevenson, "Virginibus Puerisque II," Virginibus Puerisque, 1881
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
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever. ~Don Marquis
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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
Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle. ~Bob Hope
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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