Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~Tom Wilson
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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