Took a pic of the son and me on our walk through the neighborhood tonight. Perfect evening. The kid just loves to run. He’s learned which lawns on the block are well-maintained and have grass soft enough for me to tackle him on.
From John Gregory Brown:
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.
From Joseph Joubert:
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
From Theodore M. Hesburgh:
The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
From Ernest Hemingway:
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.
From Kent Nerburn:
Until you have a son of your own… you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honor that makes a man want to be more than he is and to […]
From Unknown:
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to […]
From King George V:
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
From Ralph Waldo Emerson, on the death of his son:
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a […]
From Sigmund Freud:
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
