Fathers Day SayingsHe didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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."
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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.
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
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.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body.
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
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.
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.
