”Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” ~ Charles R. Swindoll
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
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” ~ Ruth E. Renke
“There’s a bathroom in heaven for the father of girls.” ~Unknown
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”~ Unknown
“To bring up a child in the way he should go,
travel that way yourself once in awhile.”~Josh Billings
You know you’re a dad when you’ve said…
” If your friend jumped off a bridge, would you?”
“Love and fear. Everything the father
of a family says must inspire one or the other.” ~ Joseph Joubert
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”~George Herbert
“Try not to become a man of success
but rather try to become a man of value.”~ Albert Einstein
“He who is taught to live upon little
owes more to his father’s wisdom than
he who has a great deal left to him
does to his father’s care.” ~ William Penn
”Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.” ~Bill Cosby
“Noble fathers have noble children.”~ Euripedes
“Don’t worry that children never listen to you;
worry that they are always watching you.”~ Robert Fulghum
There are three stages of a man’s life:
He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn’t believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. ~Author Unknown
“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.”
~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this
Cute, funny and so true !! I was laughing at the jumping off the bridge one, my husband says that to our boys very often.
Thank you for sharing,
Myriam
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