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• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

• 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
  
  

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

• 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