| "The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I | | | | movements and changes in the world about him. Then |
| call him Dad! "-- Anonymous"Our earth is degenerate in | | | | there comes a time when it lies within his grasp to |
| these latter days; bribery and corruption are common; | | | | shape the clay of his life into the sort of thing he |
| children no longer obey their parents; and the end of | | | | wishes to be. Only the weak blame parents, their race, |
| the world is evidently approaching."-- Assyrian clay | | | | their times, lack of good fortune, or the quirks of fate. |
| tablet 2800 B.C."The joys of parents are secret, and | | | | Everyone has it within his power to say, "This I am |
| so are their griefs and fears."-- Francis Bacon, Sr."A | | | | today; that I will be tomorrow."-- Louis L'Amour"A man |
| father is always making his baby into a little woman. | | | | knows he is growing old because he begins to look like |
| And when she is a woman he turns her back again. "-- | | | | his father."-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez"The love of a |
| Enid Bagnold"We never know the love of our parents | | | | father is one of nature's greatest masterpieces.""The |
| for us till we have become parents."-- Henry Ward | | | | merry family gatherings-- The old, the very young The |
| Beecher"I have always looked at life as a voyage, | | | | strangely lovely way they Harmonize in carols sung. |
| mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family | | | | For Christmas is tradition time-- Traditions that recall |
| and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable | | | | The precious memories down the years, The |
| than gold."-- Jimmy Buffet"The father who does not | | | | sameness of them all."-- Helen Lowrie Marshall"The |
| teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son | | | | thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl |
| who neglects them. "-- Confucius"Fatherhood is | | | | has to keep it in mind: They are dragon--seekers, bent |
| pretending the present you love the most is | | | | on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find |
| soap-on-a-rope."-- Bill Cosby"You know, fathers just | | | | someone chock--full of qualms and romantic terrors, |
| have a way of putting everything together. "-- Erika | | | | believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with |
| Cosby"Be kind to thy father, for when thou were | | | | heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to |
| young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught | | | | get. "-- Phyllis Mcginley"Everybody today seems to be |
| the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in | | | | in such a terrible rush; anxious for greater |
| thy innocent glee. "-- Margaret Courtney"Role modeling | | | | developments and greater wishes and so on; so that |
| is the most basic responsibility of parents. Parents are | | | | children have very little time for their parents; Parents |
| handing life's scripts to their children, scripts that in all | | | | have very little time for each other; and the home |
| likelihood will be acted out for the rest of the children's | | | | begins the disruption of the peace of the world."-- |
| lives."-- Stephen R. Covey"What a dreadful thing it | | | | Mother Teresa"It is much easier to become a father |
| must be to have a dull father. "-- Mary Mapes | | | | than to be one."-- Kent Nerburn (Letters to My Son: |
| Dodge"To her the name of father was another name | | | | Reflections on Becoming a Man)"As the family goes, |
| for love. "-- Fanny Fern"Parents can tell but never | | | | so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in |
| teach, unless they practice what they preach."-- Arnold | | | | which we live."-- Pope John Paul II"He who is taught to |
| Glasow"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he | | | | live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than |
| said all the proper things for a new father. He looked | | | | he who has a great deal left him does to his father's |
| upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more | | | | care. "-- William Penn"The fundamental defect with |
| beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge. "-- Helen Hayes"To | | | | fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to |
| be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when | | | | them. "-- Bertrand Russell"Good parents give their |
| you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years. | | | | children Roots and Wings. Roots to know where |
| "-- Ernest Hemingway"The best of all gifts around any | | | | home is, wings to fly away and exercise what's been |
| Christmas tree: the presence of a happy family all | | | | taught them."-- Jonas Salk"Feelings of worth can |
| wrapped up in each other."-- Burton Hillis"I am not | | | | flourish only in an atmosphere where individual |
| caused by my history--my parents, my childhood and | | | | differences are appreciated, mistakes are tolerated, |
| development. These are mirrors in which I may catch | | | | communication is open, and rules are flexible--the kind |
| glimpses of my image."-- James Hillman"There are | | | | of atmosphere that is found in a nurturing family."-- |
| fathers who do not love their children; there is no | | | | Virginia Satir"I've been very blessed. My parents |
| grandfather who does not adore his grandson. "-- | | | | always told me I could be anything I wanted. When |
| Victor Hugo"You've got to do your own growing, no | | | | you grow up in a household like that, you learn to |
| matter how tall your grandfather was."-- Irish | | | | believe in yourself."-- Rick Schroeder"It doesn't matter |
| Proverb"Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken | | | | who my father was; it matters who I remember he |
| and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a | | | | was. "-- Anne Sexton"It is a wise father that knows his |
| precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family."-- | | | | own child."-- William Shakespeare"My father must |
| Thomas Jefferson"My dear father; my dear friend; the | | | | have had some elementary education for he could |
| best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me | | | | read and write and keep accounts inaccurately "-- |
| many lessons and showed me many things as we | | | | George Bernard Shaw"It is admirable for a man to |
| went together along the country by-ways."-- Sarah | | | | take his son fishing, but there is a special place in |
| Orne Jewett"When a father gives to his son, both | | | | heaven for the father who takes his daughter |
| laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. "-- | | | | shopping."-- John Sinor"The family--that dear octopus |
| Jewish Proverb"The longer we live the more we think | | | | from whose tentacles we never quite escape nor, in |
| and the higher the value we put on friendship and | | | | our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to."-- Dodie Smith"All |
| tenderness towards parents and friends."-- Samuel | | | | the feeling which my father could not put into words |
| Johnson"He was all questions. But small boys expect | | | | was in his hand--any dog, child or horse would |
| their fathers to be walking lexicons, to do two jobs at | | | | recognize the kindness of it."-- Freya Stark"It's clear |
| once, to give replies as they are working, whether | | | | that most American children suffer too much mother |
| laying stones or building models...digging up a shrub, or | | | | and too little father."-- Gloria Steinem"Children learn to |
| planting flower beds...Boys have a right to ask their | | | | smile from their parents."-- Shinichi Suzuki"Cultivate |
| fathers questions...Fathers are the powers that be, and | | | | your own capabilities, your own style. Appreciate the |
| with their power and might must shelter, guard, and | | | | members of your family for who they are, even |
| hold and teach and love...All men with sons must learn | | | | though their outlook or style may be miles different |
| to do these things...Too soon, too soon, a small son | | | | from yours. Rabbits don't fly. Eagles don't swim. Ducks |
| grows and leaves his father's side to test his | | | | look funny trying to climb. Squirrels don't have feathers. |
| manhood's wings. "--Roy Z. Kemp"My father used to | | | | Stop comparing. There's plenty of room in the forest."-- |
| play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would | | | | Chuck Swindoll"When I was a boy of 14, my father |
| come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." | | | | was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old |
| "We're not raising grass," my dad would reply, "we're | | | | man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished |
| raising boys."--Harmon Killebrew"Up to a point a man's | | | | at how much the old man had learned in seven years. |
| life is shaped by environment, heredity, and | | | | |