My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person,
he believed in me.
– Jim Valvano –
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
~~Unknown~~
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
~~William Shakespeare ~~
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~~Clarence Budington Kelland ~~
“Fathers, like mothers, are not born.
Men grow into fathers-
and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”
~~David M. Gottesman.~~
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.
~~Mark Twain, “Old Times on the Mississippi” Atlantic Monthly, 1874~~
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~~Bill Cosby~~
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~~Gloria Naylor~~
Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
~~John Mayer~~
Happy Father’s Day.
