"He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures ... but he was never in them."
-- Erma Bombeck

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."
-- Henry Ward Beecher

"I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold."
-- Jimmy Buffet

"The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children."
-- G.K. Chesterton

"The family is the test of freedom; because the family is the only thing that the free man makes for himself and by himself."
-- G.K. Chesterton