"All the learnin’ my father paid for was a bit o’ birch at one end and an alphabet at the other." ― George Eliot Topic(s): Dad Tags: father, learnin More From George Eliot "Animals are such agreeable friends – they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms." "Life began with waking up and loving my mother’s face." "A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections." More In Dad "I’ve just got crap hair. Although I inherited a lot of stuff from my dad, including giant knees, I didn’t get his good, thick hair. I got my mother’s thin, wispy, non-event hair instead."― Jenny Eclair "We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work."― Kevin Kelly "From now on we live in a world where man has walked on the Moon. It’s not a miracle; we just decided to go."― Tom Hanks