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!)
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. ~Author Unknown
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 having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
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