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!)
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
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
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. ~Mark Twain
