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
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
Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
I still have a full deck; I just shuffle slower now. ~Author Unknown
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
You're not 40, you're eighteen with 22 years experience. ~Author Unknown
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left. ~Jerry M. Wright
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age. ~Robert Frost
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
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