Happy Father's Day!

And happy summer solstice!



"When a child is born, a father is born. A mother is born, too of course, but at least for her it's a gradual process. Body and soul, she has nine months to get used to what's happening. She becomes what's happening. But for even the best-prepared father, it happens all at once. On the other side of a plate-glass window, a nurse is holding up something roughly the size of a loaf of bread for him to see for the first time.
Quote by: Frederick Buechner, 'Whistling in the Dark'

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Quote by: Jim Valvano

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Quote by: Clarence Budington Kelland

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."
Quote by: Harmon Killebrew

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters.
Quote by: George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Quote by: Bill Cosby

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.
Quote by: Mark Twain, "Old Times on the Mississippi" Atlantic Monthly, 1874

4 years: My Daddy can do anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8 years: My father does not know quite everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not know that either.
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly old-fashioned.
21 years: Oh, that man-he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but not much.
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about it.
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's idea first.
50 years: What would Dad have thought about that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad once more.
Quote by: Unknown

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
Quote by: Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Quote by: Johann Schiller

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Quote by: Red Buttons

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Quote by: Unknown