You are only young once, but you can stay immature indefinitely. ~Ogden Nash
I'm sixty years of age. That's 16 Celsius. ~George Carlin, Brain Droppings, 1997
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!)
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
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
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown
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
Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional. ~Chili Davis
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