There were times when all one associated one's father with, was a stern looking
man with an invisible stick in hand. During those days, children were afraid to
talk to their fathers and readily did whatever he ordered, for they knew only
one thing - you can't disobey your father. Still, there was that deep-rooted
respect that guided them throughout one's life. Times have changed. Today, dads
are more indulgent. They don't expect their children to say, "Yes, father!" all
the time. Today, they care for their children more than ever. They go out with
them, play with them, pamper them and even change their diapers and cook their
lunch whenever they get time. Yet, they haven't lost their position as the
epitome of strength and respect in the household. Those times have changed but
the love that one have for his/ her father in their heart haven't changed. Love
for the father is also a unique one that also have a bit of fear and a feeling
of need of that special person to guide our way through to our future.
Let's see what these quotes, sayings and verses have to tell about their loving
fathers:
* "I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that
my father went through in order to get me to where I started." - Bartrand
Hubbard
* "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a
son who thinks he's wrong. " -Charles Wadsworth
* "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's
protection."- Sigmund Freud
* "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 the old man had learned in seven years. " - Mark Twain
* "The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get." - Tim Russert
* " 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
* "Be kind to thy father,
for when thou wert 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
* "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." -
Ruth E. Renkel
* "To be a successful father . . . there's one absolute rule: when you have a
kid, don't look at it for the first two years." - Ernest Hemingway
* "A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his
father." - Gabriel García Márquez
* "It is a wise father that knows his own child." - William Shakespeare
* "All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers
come out at night. Darkness brings home fathers, with their real, unspeakable
power. There is more to fathers than meets the eye." - Margaret Atwood
* "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their
mother." - Anonymous
* "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern
* Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers- and fathering is a
very important stage in their development." - David M. Gottesman
* "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -
Anne Sexton
* "A Man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done
during the growing season." - Anonymous
* "The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!" - Anonymous
* "A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to
be." - Anonymous
* "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." -
Clarence Budington Kelland
* 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
* "One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters." - George Herbert
* Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." - Bill
Cosby
* "It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and sons." -
Johann Schiller
* 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
* "My father was a statesman; I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm
not.- Indira Gandhi
* "You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together." - Erika
Cosby
* "Father, whom I murdered every night but one, That one, when your death
murdered me." - Howard Moss
* "Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about
small boys." - Anonymous
* "To her the name of father was another name for love." - Fanny Fern
* "If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the
whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. " - James Baldwin
You can write these quotes and verses on your father day cards or gifts and
express your true feelings to your Dad. Happy Fathers Day !!!
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