Fathers
Quotes - Count your blessings take care of the people you love
“When
fathers struggle with being authentic, they leave muddy footprints on little
girls' hearts.”
―
Tina Samples, Messed Up Men of the Bible
“Count
your blessings take care of the people you love. 'Happy father's day to all the
greatest POP,DAD,KIN in the world.”
―
Napz Cherub Pellazo
“Being
a dad is quite rewarding and even magical at times. It is our greatest chance
to do something right in our lives that will keep making the world a brighter
place even generations after we are gone.”
―
Timothy Pina, Bullying Ben: How Benjamin Franklin Overcame Bullying
“A
man is measured by the depths of his commitments.”
―
Mark William Goldman
“Fathers
do as they wish with their children. They break their hearts if it suits them,
as easily as they would wring a chicken's neck to make a meal!"
--
Lewis Mallory”
―
Barbara Willard, The Lark and the Laurel
“dad
had to...
...work
three jobs he had to
give
his time off to sleep
instead
of knowing me”
―
Vivek Shraya, Even This Page Is White
“Mothers
are a biological necessity. Fathers are a social invention.”
― M.
Mead
“He
taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in not being able
to fix it.”
―
Hope Jahren, Lab Girl
“Every
child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old
enough to realize that he is just a man”
―
Mark Maish
“when
you allow that man. to walk through your children. plant his feet. in their
veins. hold their voices. necks. bodies. inside his violence. you are no longer
a mother. when you give him the key to that door. because you need to be loved
by someone. you have seasoned them for the wolf. burned their childhood into a
fantasy. it’s going to take a third of their lives. all the courage. from their
cells to their hair. to learn the alchemetic formula that turns that kind of
betrayal. a demothering. soft. liveable. – before you get that key made”
―
Nayyirah Waheed, Salt
“Or
perhaps Zeus was just messing with me again—giving me a taste of my old power
before yanking it away once more. Remember this, kid? WELL YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!”
―
Rick Riordan, The Hidden Oracle
“Those
moments when we learn that mothers rage and fathers kill, that friends betray
and authority is fallible, or that our own blank, innocent ignorance can
destroy the pure, the good, and the loved are moments the very memory of which
constitutes the beginning of a strategy to live in a world where such horrors
exist.”
―
Samuel R. Delany, The Motion of Light in Water: Sex and Science Fiction Writing
in the East Village
“If
a father does not altogether embrace a life of uncompromised sacrifice as the
core of all principles by which he nurtures his children, he is a father by
birth only and no power on earth can ever or will ever make that sufficient.”
―
Craig D. Lounsbrough
“If
you have no arms
To
hold your crying child but your own arms
And
no legs but your own to run the stairs one more time
To
fetch what was forgotten
I
bow to you
If
you have no vehicle
To
tote your wee one but the wheels that you drive
And
no one else to worry, “Is my baby okay?”
When
you have to say goodbye on the doorsteps of daycare
or
on that cursed first day of school
I
bow to you
If
you have no skill but your own skill
To
replenish an ever-emptying bank account
And
no answers but your own to
Satisfy
the endless whys, hows, and whens your child asks and asks again
I
bow to you
If
you have no tongue to tell the truth
To
keep your beloved on the path without a precipice
And
no wisdom to impart
Except
the wisdom that you’ve acquired
I
bow to you
If
the second chair is empty
Across
the desk from a scornful, judging authority waiting
For
your child’s father to appear
And
you straighten your spine where you sit
And
manage to smile and say, “No one else is coming—I’m it.”
Oh,
I bow to you
If
your head aches when the spotlight finally shines
on
your child because your hands are the only hands there to applaud
I
bow to you
If
your heart aches because you’ve given until everything in you is gone
And
your kid declares, “It’s not enough.”
And
you feel the crack of your own soul as you whisper,
“I
know, baby. But it’s all mama’s got.”
Oh,
how I bow to you
If
they are your life while you are their nurse, tutor, maid
Bread
winner and bread baker,
Coach,
cheerleader and teammate…
If
you bleed when your child falls down
I
bow, I bow, I bow
If
you’re both punisher and hugger
And
your own tears are drowned out by the running of the bathroom faucet
because
children can’t know that mamas hurt too
Oh,
mother of mothers, I bow to you.
—Toni
Sorenson”
―
Toni Sorenson
“A
father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father
gives all of himself that is good.”
―
Vincent Carrella
