I know this is a couple days late, but I wanted to send along some "Father's Day" thoughts. They by no means exclude women or mothers (who will surely enjoy them as well) and include a mixture of wisdom and comic relief! Any parent can surely relate to most every one. They were gleaned from a book entitled: "The Little Red Book of Dad's Wisdom," edited by Nick and Tony Lyons. Enjoy!
"By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact. But I am also prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to rebuild, the father only builds, never destroys."
General Douglas
MacArthur
"Insanity
is hereditary; you get it from your children."
Sam Levenson
"Mostly
you just have to keep plugging and keep loving -- and hoping that your child
forgives you according to how you loved him, judged him, forgave him, and stood
watching over him as he slept, year after year."
Ben Stein
"Raising
a child is part joy and part guerrilla warfare."
Ed Asner
"One
of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry
your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchildren in the
world."
Jewish Proverb
"When
a girl reaches adolescence, she looks to her father for approval and
love."
Ian Grant
"You
feel completely comfortable entrusting your baby to them for long periods of
time, which is why most grandparents flee to Florida at the earliest
opportunity."
Dave Barry
"I
talk and talk and talk, yet I haven't taught people in fifty years what my
father taught by example in one week... I watched a small man with thick
callouses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I once saw
him literally bleed from the bottom 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 ad hard work by the simple eloquence of his example."
Former Governor of
New York, Mario Cuomo
"Some
day you will know that a father is much happier in his children's happiness
than in his own. I cannot explain it to you, it is a feeling in your body
that spreads gladness through you."
Pere Goriot
"Children
today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food, and
tyrannize their teachers."
Socrates (370 B.C.)
"There
are three ways to make sure something gets done: 1.) Do it yourself. 2.)
Hire someone to do it for you. 3.) Forbid your kids to do it."
Author Unknown
"A
father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to
be."
Author Unknown
"There
must always be a struggle between a father and a son, for while one aims at
power, the other aims at independence."
Samuel Johnson
"I
don't know any parents that look into the eyes of a newborn baby and say, 'How
can we screw this kid up?'"
Russell Bishop
"It's
easy to wind back thirty or forty years to other times when dad and I were
together in the woods beside a stream. It never really mattered where we were
or whether we had caught many trout or found a lot of birds. Time and place
were irrelevant as long as we shared them."
William Tapply
"I
can run the country or control Alice (his daughter). I can't do
both."
President Theodore
Roosevelt
"Raising
a child on a steady diet of "I am the center of the universe" is
generally quite harmful. Your child is not the center of the universe and never
will be."
Ian Grant
I trust you could
relate to a few!
Blessings on your
week, Pastor Jeff
