Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that the people who have the most live the longest. ~Larry Lorenzoni
Middle age is having a choice between two temptations and choosing the one that'll get you home earlier. ~Dan Bennett
Because time itself is like a spiral, something special happens on your birthday each year: The same energy that God invested in you at birth is present once again. ~Menachem Mendel Schneerson
Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act. ~Truman Capote
There is still no cure for the common birthday. ~John Glenn
Just remember, once you're over the hill you begin to pick up speed. ~Charles Schulz
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Our birthdays are feathers in the broad wing of time. ~Jean Paul Richter
In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com
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
May you live to be a hundred yearsWith one extra year to repent.~Author Unknown
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
