Five Quote Friday

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

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~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

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
~Ruth E. Renkel