For what are the words with which to summarize a lifetime, so much crowded confused happiness terminated by such stark slow-motion pain? ― Joyce Carol Oates

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It's sad that children cannot know their parents when they were younger; when they were loving, courting, and being nice to one another. By the time children are old enough to observe, the romance has all too often faded or gone underground.

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Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. — Frank Pittman

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There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction.

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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.

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What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.

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It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime. ― Mandy Hale

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Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that’s why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. — Wade Boggs

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As fathers, we know that our children need our love and need our guidance and need our faith in them. We know that our children need from us what only we as fathers can provide them. ― Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr

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Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. ― Anne Frank

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