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.
- Jimmy Piersal
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
- Red Buttons
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,
- Tom Wolfe
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
- Author Unknown
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
- Bill Cosby
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.
- George Herbert
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
- William Wordsworth
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
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
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
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
- Gloria Naylor
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
- Clarence Budington Kelland
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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.
- Mark Twain
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
- Author Unknown
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.
- Clarence Budington Kelland
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
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
