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The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.
Sep 10, 2025
Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.
He adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector.
You are a son to me, that to my father I couldn't be. I love you.
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
A boy is a magical creature - you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can't lock him out of your heart.
A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be
When you teach your son, you teach your son's son.
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.
The imprint of the father, remains forever on the life of the child.
Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
Any father whose son raises his hand against him is guilty of having produced a son who raised his hand against him.
God eternally exists as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and each person is fully God, and there is one God.
It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
When my father didn't have my hand, he had my back.
The greatest mark of a father is how he treats his children when no one is looking.
A father should be his son's first hero, and his daughters first love.
I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more.
He who can be a good son will be a good father.
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word-father.
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature.
A father is the one friend upon whom we can always rely. In the hour of need, when all else fails, we remember him upon whose knees we sat when children, and who soothed our sorrows; and even though he may be unable to assist us, his mere presence serves to comfort and strengthen us.
Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.
A father is neither an anchor to hold us back, nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way.
A father is someone you look up to no matter how tall you grow.
No matter how old you become, I'll always hold your hand tenderly. just like how I held it on the day that you were born. I love you, son.
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.
Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.
The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.
Then I said to you, 'Do not be in dread or afraid of them. The LORD your God who goes before you will himself fight for you, just as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes, and in the wilderness, where you have seen how the LORD your God carried you, as a man carries his son, all the way that you went until you came to this place.
You know my father as governor, as president, but I knew him as dad. I was so proud to have the Reagan name and to be Ronald Reagan's son.
A dad is someone who wants to catch you before you fall but instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again. A dad is someone who wants to keep you from making mistakes but instead lets you find your own way, even though his heart breaks in silence when you get hurt. A dad is someone who holds you when you cry, scolds you when you break the rules, shines with pride when you succeed, and has faith in you even when you fail.
What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme.
And new philosophy calls all in doubt, The element of fire is quite put out; The sun is lost, and the earth, and no man's wit Can well direct him where to look for it. And freely men confess that this world's spent, When in the planets, and the firmament They seek so many new; then see that this Is crumbled out again to his atomies. 'Tis all in pieces, all coherence gone; All just supply, and all relation: Prince, subject, Father, Son, are things forgot.
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.
I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.
The truth now.He was disappointed in human beings.He had seen too many betrayals,too many pitiful weaknesses,too much greed for money and fame.The falseness between lovers,husbands and wifes,fathers,sons,mothers,daughters
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
Lord, I am no longer my own, but Yours. Put me to what You will, rank me with whom You will. Let be employed by You or laid aside for You, exalted for You or brought low by You. Let me have all things, let me have nothing, I freely and heartily yield all things to Your pleasure and disposal. And now, O glorious and blessed God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, You are mine and I am Yours. So be it. Amen.
Deciding whether or not to trust a person is like deciding whether or not to climb a tree, because you might get a wonderful view from the highest branch, or you might simply get covered in sap, and for this reason many people choose to spend their time alone and indoors, where it is harder to get a splinter.
Set your expectations high; find men and women whose integrity and values you respect; get their agreement on a course of action; and give them your ultimate trust.
The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.