Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
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!)
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. ~George Bernard Shaw
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body. ~Author Unknown
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
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