2. A young successful attorney
said: "The greatest gift I ever
received was a gift I got when
my Dad gave me a small box.
Inside was a note saying, 'Son,
this year I will give you 365
hours, an hour every day after
dinner. It's yours. We'll talk
about what you want to talk
about, we'll go where you want
to go, play what you want to
play. It will be your hour!'"
3. Sometimes the poorest man leaves his
children the richest inheritance.
--Ruth E. Renkel
4. When I was a boy of
fourteen, my father was so
ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man
around. But when I got to
be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much
the old man had learned in
seven years.
--Mark Twain
5. By the time a man realizes
that maybe his father was
right, he usually has a son
who thinks he's wrong.
-- Charles Wadsworth
6. Be kind to thy father, for
when thou were young,
who loved thee so fondly as
he? He caught the first
accents that fell from thy
tongue, and joined in thy
innocent glee.
-- Margaret Courtney
7. If the new American father
feels bewildered and even
defeated, let him take
comfort from the fact that
whatever he does in any
fathering situation has a fifty
percent chance of being
right.
-- Bill Cosby
8. By profession I am a soldier and
take pride in that fact.
But I am prouder – infinitely
prouder – to be a father. A soldier
destroys in order to build; the
father only builds, never destroys.
The one has the potentiality of
death; the other embodies creation
and life. And while the hordes of
death are mighty, the battalions of
life are mightier still. It is my hope
that my son, when I am gone, will
remember me not from the battle
field but in the home repeating
with him our simple daily prayer,
'Our Father who art in Heaven.‘
-- Gen. Douglas MacArthur
