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My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.
Sep 24, 2025
The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.
Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.
The righteous man walks in his integrity; His children are blessed after him.
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms 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 and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day.
And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
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.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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