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
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
We know we're getting old when the only thing we want for our birthday is not to be reminded of it. ~Author Unknown
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
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
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~Red Buttons
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
Inside every older person is a younger person wondering what happened. ~Jennifer Yane
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
First you forget names; then you forget faces; then you forget to zip up your fly; and then you forget to unzip your fly. ~Branch Rickey
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