Honoring Fathers

Tue, Jun 13, 2006

Articles, Parenting

To all of you hard working, loving fathers out there we send a huge THANK YOU for doing a job that can at times feel challenging and unappreciated. What you do every day matters significantly to the success and joy of your family and our world. You are deeply appreciated. We hope you enjoy the following quotes.

“It should have great meaning that of all the titles of respect and honor and admiration that could be given him, that God himself, he who is the highest of all, chose to be addressed simply as ‘Father.'” —A. Theodore Tuttle

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” —Charles Wadworth

“I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.” —Margaret Thatcher, former Prime Minister

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” —Sigmund Freud

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” —Author Unknown

“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.” —William Penn

“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.” —Anonymous

Tell us about your father and something he did that has blessed your life.

One Response to “Honoring Fathers”

  1. Gloria Says:

    Wonderful quotes honoring fathers. I am going to email this to my husband!