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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, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

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

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, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

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

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

Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.
~Author Unknown

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~Gloria Naylor

There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
~John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

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





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

Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
~Red Buttons

I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
~Author Unknown

There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and 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

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

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
~William Wordsworth

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

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This was a long time coming, I still have a hard time believing that Barack Obama could go all the way to winning the nomination.

A great big thanks to Andy at Political Realm for letting me use this awesome picture of Obama with the backdrop of Mt. Rushmore, if you are a political junkie, looking for truly fair and balanced reporting, check this site out.





PS
I just finished watching his speech, and already have a layout in mind for the picture of him and Michelle on stage together, it definitely made me proud of my country!

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My first visit to Disney World was for the first part of my honeymoon (second part layout coming soon). Even though it was March with winter barely over, Florida alternated between hot and humid, and it really reminded me of summer.

Some summer quotes to make your summer day

A life without love is like a year without summer.
~ Swedish Proverb

A perfect summer day is when the sun is shining, the breeze is blowing, the birds are singing, and the lawn mower is broken.
~ James Dent

A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
~ St. Francis of Assisi

Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
~ Russel Baker

August creates as she slumbers, replete and satisfied.
~ Joseph Wood Krutch

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
~ William Law

Be like the flower, turn your face to the sun.
~ Kahlil Gibran

Being a child at home alone in the summer is a high-risk occupation. If you call your mother at work thirteen times an hour, she can hurt you.
~ Erma Bombeck

Breathless, we flung us on a windy hill, laughed in the sun, and kissed the lovely grass.
~ Rupert Brooke

Celebrate Summer - Sun drenched days and starlit nights…
~ Gooseberry Patch

Colored scents that fill the air as drowsy insects hum around in the meadow is the place of secret magic where nature alone renews itself.
~ Kate Bergquist

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.
~ Sam Keen

Dirty hands, iced tea, garden fragrances thick in the air and a blanket of color before me, who could ask for more?
~ Bev Adams

Heat, ma’am! it was so dreadful here, that I found there was nothing left for it but to take off my flesh and sit in my bones.
~ Sydney Smith

I know that if odor were visible, as color is, I’d see the summer garden in rainbow clouds.
~ Robert Bridges

I live on an island and listen to jazz all day long. The sun is always shining, but you can still see the stars. The breeze sings astonishingly like Ella and the wind rumbles in a Louis way. My friends and I dance under magic skies.
~ Author Unknown

Summer is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.
~ John Ruskin

Summer is the time when one sheds one’s tensions with one’s clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that alls right with the world.
~ Ada Louise Huxtable

Summer set lip to earth’s bosom bare,
And left the flushed print in a poppy there.
~ Francis Thompson

The dandelions and buttercups gild all the lawn: the drowsy bee stumbles among the clover tops, and summer sweetens all to me.
~James Russell Lowell

The steady buzzzzzzz of the Katydid chorus, and the bass solo of the croaking Frog - a summer night’s serenade.
~ Michael P. Garofalo

The Summer looks out from her brazen tower,
Through the flashing bars of July.
~ Francis Thompson

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
~ Wallace Stevens

Then followed that beautiful season… Summer….
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There shall be eternal summer in the grateful heart.
~ Celia Thaxter

To believe in life is to believe there will always be someone who will water the geraniums.
~ Flavia

To see the Summer Sky
Is Poetry, though never in a Book it lie -
True Poems flee.
~ Emily Dickinson

We are much more likely to experience a sense of plenty when we are relaxed.
~ SARK

What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps me in a continual state of inelegance.
~ Jane Austen

What is one to say about June, the time of perfect young summer, the fulfillment of the promise of the earlier months, and with as yet no sign to remind one that its fresh young beauty will ever fade.
~ Gertrude Jekyll

What is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.
~ James Russell Lowell

When I was a little kid, of course, I was brown all summer. That’s because I was free as a bird- nothing to do but catch bugs all day.
~ Roy Blount Jr.

Who has not dreamed a world of bliss on a bright, sunny noon like this?
~ William Howitt

Yellow butterflies look like flowers flying through the warm summer air.
~ Andrea Willis

You can never appreciate the shade of a tree unless you sweat in the sun.
~ Author Unknown

I question not if thrushes sing,
If roses load the air;
Beyond my heart I need not reach
When all is summer there.
~ John Vance Cheney

I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.
~ L. M. Montgomery

If a June night could talk, it would probably boast it invented romance.
~ Bern Williams

In June, as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.
~ Aldo Leopold

In summer, the song sings itself.
~ William Carlos Williams

In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer quite the other way
I have to go to bed by day.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson

It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong.
~ John Cheever

Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
~ Hal Borland

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us.
~ Thomas Browne

Love is to the heart what the summer is to the farmer’s year - it brings to harvest all the loveliest flowers of the soul.
~ Author Unknown

No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
~ Eleanor Sinclair-Rhode

Oh, bring again my heart’s content,
Thou Spirit of the Summer-time!
~ William Allingham

Oh, the summer night
Has a smile of light
And she sits on a sapphire throne.
~ Barry Cornwall

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.
~ Anton Chekhov

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.
~ John Lubbock

Someone’s sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
~ Warren Buffett

Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.
~ Henry James

Summer has now thrown open her emerald doors. Every part of the landscape is profuse in leaves and flowers, and “green-robed senators of mighty woods” are clothed in their most elegant array.
~ Author Unknown




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