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Father
May 5th, 2008
| There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. ~John Gregory Brown One good father can do more than 100 schoolmasters. ~ Persian Proverb A Daddy is a man who has photos in his wallet where his money used to be. A father is someone we can look up to no matter how tall we get. The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. 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 Some may own castles on the banks of the Rhine, and hire orchestras each morning at nine. But richer than I they will never be… I had a dad who spent time with me. ~ D. Morgan My Dad I love someone dearly. He takes me out fishing; And as I get bigger,
Daddy’s Steps
by Margaret Brown Elms When Daddy walks along the street
And hurries home to me, He takes the quickest, longest steps That ever I did see. But when I go to walk with him, He acts quite diff’rently, And takes the slowest, shortest ones To keep in step with me.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~ Kent Nerburn
There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings. ~ Hodding Carter, Jr. The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. ~ Angelo Patri Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected. ~ Red Buttons |
The guys who fear becoming fathers don’t understand that fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man. The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent. ~ Frank Pittman Build me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave
enough to face himself when he is afraid. One who will be proud and unbending in defeat but humble and gentle in victory. A son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.
Rear him, I pray, not in the paths of ease and comfort but under the stress and spur of Build me a son whose heart will be clean, whose goal will be high. A son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men. One who learns to laugh, yet never forget how to weep. One who will reach into the future yet never forget the past. And after all these are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor so that he may always be Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, “I have not lived in vain.” What Makes A Dad God took the strength of a mountain, When you are a father, and you hear your children’s voices, you will feel that those little ones are akin to every drop in your veins; that they are the very flower of your life and you will cleave so closely to them that you seem to feel every movement that they make. ~ Honore De Balzac
A father is a person that is forced to endure childbirth without an anesthetic A father is a person that growls when he feels good . . . and laughs out loud when scared half to death A father never feels worthy of the worship in a child’s eyes. He’s never quite the hero his daughter thinks . . . never quite the man his son believes him to be . . . and this worries him So he works too hard to try and smooth the rough places in the road for those of his own who will follow him A father is a person who gets angry when the first school grades aren’t as good as he thinks they should be He scolds his son . . . though he knows it’s the teacher’s fault Fathers are persons that give daughters away to other men who aren’t nearly good enough . . . so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody’s. ~ Paul Harvey |
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