ilovepinterest: June 2012

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Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Clarence Budington Kelland
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.
Johann Schiller
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
Dinah Craik
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
Jim Valvano
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Bill Cosby
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Phyllis Diller
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Austin O'Malley
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
William Penn
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
Pope John XXIII
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Richard Henry Dana
Better to be driven out from among men than to be disliked of children.
Chinese Proverb
If a son is uneducated, his dad is to blame.
Sam Ewing
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
August Strindberg
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
Margaret Courtney
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Fanny Fern
To her the name of father was another name for love.
Erika Cosby
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Mario Cuomo
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

Johann Schiller
It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons.
Lord Chesterfield
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
Helen Rowland
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Aldous Huxley
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that, which charmed their fathers.
George Herbert
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons, one father.
Marlene Dietrich
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
William Shakespeare
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Charles Wadsworth
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
James Baldwin
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
Robert Frost
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

Robert Orben
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Ann Richards
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
Jay Leno
A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.
Barbara Kingsolver
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
Jimmy Piersall
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.
Bertrand Russell
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Brad Pitt
Man, if I can get a burp out of that little thing I feel such a sense of accomplishment.
Ernest Hemingway
To be a successful father there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Tim Russert
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
Mark Twain
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 the old man had learned in seven years.
Bill Hicks
I never got along with my dad. Kids used to come up to me and say, "My dad can beat up your dad." I'd say, "Yeah? When?
Jack Handy
Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every christening.
Donald Trump
I love producing children. It's fun! I don't like taking care of children, but I love producing children.
Jerry Seinfeld
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
Patrick Dempsey
Here's the cycle: They wake up, they cry, they go to the breast, they eat, they poo or pee, you change a diaper, and they go back to sleep. It's much harder for my wife than for me because she's pumping or nursing.
Lionel Richie
Forget about surviving 40 years in the music business. Just surviving 27 years of Nicole Richie has been a struggle-and-a-half, I want to tell you. I stand here as a survivor, I want you to know, for all the parents out there.
Chris Martin
Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.
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He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~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." ~Harmon Killebrew

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

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

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name. ~William Wordsworth

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

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ~Enid Bagnold

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! ~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown

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. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this (Thanks, Garson O'Toole!)

Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~Author Unknown

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes. ~Gloria Naylor

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

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

Are we not like two volumes of one book? ~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown

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

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich. ~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. ~Author Unknown

There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~Dinah Craik

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

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. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968