You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
Youth is a disease from which we all recover. ~Dorothy Fulheim
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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 kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
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
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
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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