“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
Ruth E. Renkel
“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.”
Margaret Courtney
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
Erika Cosby
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
Mario Cuomo
