Remember, everybody, Father's Day 2009 falls on Sunday, June 21st. Whether he's your biological father or not, why not take a moment to thank a role model who made a difference in your life? Give a little gift, or share some of these quotations. Enjoy!

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.  ~Johann Schiller

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right. ~ Bill Cosby

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

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby

A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
~ Anonymous

'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness." ~ Aeschylus

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

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. ~ Erika Cosby

Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.  ~ Anne Geddes

It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home—it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.  ~ Margaret Truman

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

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

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

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

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

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

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  ~Author Unknown

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~Charles Wadsworth