Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik
A birthday is just the first day of another 365-day journey around the sun. Enjoy the trip. ~Author Unknown
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
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