Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
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
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
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
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~Johann Schiller
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 father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown
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