"The family.  We were a strange little band of characters trudging through life sharing diseases and toothpaste, coveting one another's desserts, hiding shampoo, borrowing money, locking each other out of our rooms, inflicting pain and kissing to heal it in the same instant, loving, laughing, defending, and trying to figure out the common thread that bound us all together."  Erma Bombeck

"Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing."  Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller's Housekeeping Hints, 1966

"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."  The Talmud

"The greatest gift I ever had came from God: I call him Dad!"  Author Unknown

"The best thing to spend on your children is your time." Louise Hart

"Insanity is hereditary; you inherit it from your children."  Sam Levenson?

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."  William Shakespeare

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."  George Herbert

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

"Father!  To God himself we cannot give a holier name!"  William Wordsworth

"Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys."  Author Unknown

"The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother."  Theodore M. Hesburgh

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms whenever his hands are empty."  Author Unknown

"I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart." Terri Guillemets

"A father carries a picture where his money used to be."  Author Unknown

"Any man can be a father.  It takes someone special to be a Dad."  Anne Geddes

"No man stands as tall as when he stoops to help a child."  Abraham Lincoln