Module 3b:Father’s Quotes
• A Father is the one most fundamental person in every person's life. He is the central loving authority that acts from the affectionate term 'Daddy' to the weight, honor and dignity of 'Father'. (HEARTFELT’S FATHERS)
• He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son (John Locke)
• “No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it. And then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before.” (Lapcadio Hearn, 1850 – 1904)
• And He shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to the fathers. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• “….the walks and talks we have with our two-year-olds in red boots have a great deal to do with the values they will cherish as adults.” (Edith F. Hunter, b. 1919)
• “He loves his children not because everything in them is lovely and according to his liking, but because there is a real incomprehensible bond which is stronger than fiction.” (Leroy Bronlow, ‘A FATHER’S WORLD’)
• Blessed God, father of all fathers, who cares for us with that precious love you show also to the flowers and the sparrows, from your great, generous heart, bless us too with your peace. (Hazel Martin)
• Your light must shine before the people, so that they will see the good things you do and praise your Father in heaven. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• There is no such a whetstone, to sharpen a good wit and encourage a will to learning, as is a father's praise. (Roger Ascham)
• “In the effort to give good and comforting answers to the young questioners whom we love, we very often arrive at good and comforting answers for ourselves.” (Ruth Goode)
• Children are fortunate if they have a father who is honest and does what is right. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• “A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.” (R. Cholmondeley)
• “If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.” (Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1856 – 1953)
• Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath. (NEW TESTAMENT, Eff. 6:4 & Col. 3:21)
• “A boy is a magical creature – you can lock him out of your workshop, but you can’t lock him out of your heart.” (Alan Beck)
• “It doesn’t make any difference how much money a father earns, his name is always Dad-Can-I, and he always wonder whether these little people where born to beg. I bought each of my five children everything up to a Rainbow Brite jacuzzi and still I kept hearing ‘Dad, can I get….Dad, can I go……Dad, can I buy….’ ….Sometimes at three or four in the morning, I open the door to one of the children’s bedrooms and watch the light fall across their little faces. And then I kneel quietly beside one of their beds, and just look at the girl laying there because she is so beautiful. And because she is not begging. Kneeling there, I listen reverently at the sound of her breathing. And then she wakes up and says, ‘Dad, can I…..’ (Bill Cosby, b.1937, from ‘FATHERHOOD’)
• “Arthur always had his arms around [his daughter] Camera. When he talked about her, his face would light up like stars in the sky. He showed more feeling for his daughter than I had seen him show his whole life.” (Horace Ashe, Uncle of Arthur Ashe)
• “I do not love him because he is good, but because he is my little child.” (Rabindranath Tagore, 1861 – 1941)
• “Sons are the anchors of a mother’s life.” (Sophocles, 496 – 406 B. C., from’PHAEDRA’)
• “The most important relationship within the family, second only to that of husband and wife, is the relationship between father and daughter.” (David Jeremiah)
• “It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” (Schiller , 1759 – 1805)
• “Dad, when you come home at night with only shattered pieces of your dreams, your little one can mend them like new with two magic words – ‘Hi Dad.’” (Alan Beck)
• A mother’s children are like ideas; none are as wonderful as her own. (Chinese fortune)
• A mother doesn’t care a damn about your looks. She thinks you are beautiful, anyway. (Marion C. Garretty, b.1917)
• It’s the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have…..One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head….and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect “I understand and love you” without so much as uttering a word. (Erma Bombeck, b. 1927)
• “How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s table. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak he had planted.” (Sir Walter Scott, 1771-1832)
• “Every breath she ever breathed, every effort she ever made, every prayer she ever prayed was for his son….The greatest break that Francis Albert Sinatra ever enjoyed in his entire life, in his entire career, was to have Dolly as a mother.” (Reverend Robert Perella)
• “Everybody knows that a good mother gives her children a feeling of trust and stability…..Somehow even clothes feel different to her children’s hands from anybody else’s clothes. Only to touch her sleeve makes a troubled child feel better.” (Katharine Butler Hathaway)
• “Once I picked up Lia at Brownie camp. She was six years old and came running out to the car in her new khaki uniform with an orange bandana around her neck and a little beanie on her head. She had just made it into the Potawatami Tribe. She had hoped to join the Nava-joes, as she called them, but she was turned down. Still she was excited, and so was I. Funny thing, I missed an important meeting that day, but for the life of me I have no recollection of what it was.” (Lee Iacocca, b. 1924, from ‘TALKING STRAIGHT’)
• “As I start the twilight years of my life, I try to look back and figure out what it was all about. I’m still not sure what is meant by good fortune and success. I know fame and power are for the birds. But then suddenly life comes into focus for me. And, ah, there stand my kids. I love them." (Lee Iacocca, b. 1924, from “TALKING STRAIGHT”)
• Having a child alters the rights of every man, and I don’t expect to live as I did without her. I am hers to be with, and hope to be what she needs, and I know of no reason why should I ever desert her.” (Laurie Lee, b, 1914)
• “What do I owe my father? Everything.” (Henry van Dyke, 1852 – 1933)
• “He is totally transformed by his first daughter. There is a gentleness about him that even love never discovered. He holds her like a flower, like thinnest glass. He wonders at this new and lovely life, incredible in it’s perfection.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• I showed you the world through my eyes. Now you show it to me through yours. And so we learn.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• “Your first butterfly. Your first rainbow. Your first dinosaur. In sharing your childhood I relived my own.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• When you are a father, and you hear your children’s voices, you will feel that those little ones are akin to every drop in your veins; that they are the very flower of your life and you will cleave so closely to them that you seem to feel every movement that they make.” (Honere De Balzac (1799-1850), from ‘LE PERE GORIOT’
• When you are a mother, you are never really alone in your thoughts. You are connected to your child and to all those who touch your lives. (Sophia Loren, b. 1934)
• “He wants to live on through something – and in his case, his masterpiece is his son … all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.” (Arthur Miller, b. 1915)
• “She climbed into my lap and curled into the crook of my left arm. I couldn’t move that arm, but I could cradle Ashtin in it. I could kiss the top of her head. And I could have no doubt that this was one of the sweetest moments of my life.” (Dennis Byrd, about his daughter)
• “I had heard all those things about fatherhood, how great it is. But it’s greater than I’d ever expected – I had no idea Quinton would steal my heart the way he has. From the minute I laid eyes on him, knew nobody could ever wrestle him away from me.” (Burt Reynolds, b. 1936)
• Children are a kind of confirmation of life. The only form of immortality that we can be sure of. (Peter Ustinov, b 1921)
• “The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother’s.” (James M. Barrie, 1860 – 1937)
• “When one becomes a father, then first one becomes a son. Standing by the crib of one’s own baby, with that world-old pang of compassion and protectiveness toward this so little creature that has all its course to run, the heart flies back in yearning and gratitude to those who felt just so towards one’s self. Then for the first time one understands the homely succession of sacrifices and pains by which life is transmitted and fostered down the stumbling generations.” (Christopher Morley, 1890 – 1957, from ‘MINCE PIE’)
• “I love his laugh,…it bubbles out in an infectious wholehearted way. This is pure joy – nothing else matters.” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, b. 1906)
• A mother always has to think twice, once for herself and once for her child. (Sophia Loren, b. 1934)
• “A friend of ours, suddenly a father, writes: Thirty minutes after her birth, my daughter was already taking my measure. She lay in my lap, startlingly alert, scanning me as I scanned her, our gazes moving about each other’s bodies, limbs, faces, eyes – repeatedly returning to the eyes, returning and then locking…..My eyes locked on hers, I’d had a sense that I was gazing into origins – that this gaze of hers was welling up at me from deep beyond the past’s past. Of course, that sense of things was all wrong, for, eye to eye, it was she who was gazing into the past. I was gazing into the future’s future.” (Lawrence Weschler, from “THE NEW YORKER”, March 9, 1987)
• Last night my child was born – a very strong boy, with large black eyes. If you ever become a father, I think the strangest and strongest sensation of your life will be hearing for the first time the thin cry of your own child. For a moment you have the strange feeling of being double; but there is something more, quite impossible to analyze – perhaps the echo in a man’s heart of all the sensations felt by all the fathers and mothers of his race at a similar instant in the past. It is a very tender, but also a very ghostly feeling. (Lafcadio Hearn, 1850 – 1904, from ‘THE LETTERS OF LAFCADIO HEARN’)
• “Then they handed her to me, stiff and howling, and I held her for the first time and kissed her, and she went still and quiet as though by instinctive guile, and I was utterly enslaved by her flattery of my powers.” (Laurie Lee, b. 1914, from ‘THE FIRSTBORN’)
• Nothing I’ve ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children. (Bill Cosby)
• “He grows with her, learning as they go. He feels with her – each restlessness, each fear, each pain. She laughs and he is overjoyed. She reaches out her little arms to him and he rejoices. She sleeps on his shoulder and he does not move, for fear of waking her.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• The night you were born I ceased being my father’s boy and became my son’s father. That night I began a new life. (Henry Gregor Felson)
• Children aren’t happy with nothing to ignore. And that’s what parents were created for. (Ogden Nash, 1902 – 1971)
• “I love my little girl an extraordinary amount; I have, in fact, surprised myself with my talent for fathering. Since her birth I have been so wholly preoccupied with the minutiae of her progress – from the growth of the microscopic hairs on her bald head to the lengthening of her attention span – that I have been effectively lost to the larger world.” (Harry Stein, from ‘ESQUIRE’, October 1981)
• We never know the love of the parent until we become parents ourselves. (Henry Ward Beecher, 1813 – 1887)
• Bright clasp of her whole hand around my finger, My daughter, as we walk together now. All my life, I’ll feel a ring invisibly. Circle this bone with shining: when she is grown. Far from today as her eyes are far already. (Stephen Spender, b. 1909)
• “We bear the world, and we make it….There was never a great man who had not a great mother – it is hardly an exaggeration.” (Olive Shreiner, 1855 – 1920)
• Some of my memories are nearly forty years old, but they are indelible and they are a comfort. To love someone unconditionally – as I loved Daddy – is to remember each detail of their personage, to remember isolated and long-past moments together, to remember nuances that made such an object of love unique and impossible to replace. That is why I remember, and cherish, the memories of the man’s hair, his smell, his likes and dislikes, and his idiosyncrasies. (Lewis Grizzard, from ‘MY DADDY WAS A PISTOL AND I’M A SON OF A GUN.’)
• The child had every toy his father wanted. (Robert E Witten)
• “To a young boy, the father is a giant from whose shoulders you can see forever.” (Perry Garfinkel)
• When a father sets out to teach his little son to walk, he stands in front of him and holds his two hands on either side of the child, so that he cannot fall, and the boy goes toward his father between his father’s hands. But the moment he is close to his father, he moves away a little and holds his hands farther apart, and he does this over and over, so that the child may learn to walk. (The Baal Shem)
• “One word of my command from me is obeyed by millions…but I cannot get my three daughters, Pamela, Felicity and Joan, to come down to breakfast on time.” (Viscount Archibald Wavell, 1883 – 1950)
• “Men who have daughters needn’t seek power in the boardroom or the bedroom, on the playing field or on the battlefield. They already have enormous influence. They are No. 1 in their daughters’ lives, and not only on Father’s Day. Fathers are the first men women love. We long for their approval, and when it’s withheld, may decide to go outside and eat worms.” (Cyra McFadden)
• How easily a father’s tenderness is recalled and how quickly a son’s offences vanish at the slightest word of repentance. (Molière, 1622 – 1673)
• “There have been many times when I thought other people might be better singers or better musicians or prettier than me, but then I would hear Daddy’s voice telling me never to say never, and I would find a way to squeeze an extra inch or two out of what God had given me.” (Barbara Mandrell)
• It’s a wonderful feeling when your father becomes not a god but a man to you – when he comes down from the mountain and you see he’s this man with weakness. And you love him as this whole being, not as a figurehead. (Robin Williams)
• I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen 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. (Mario Cuomo)
• “The most important time of our time together was this: whatever his politics or view of the role of woman, he never made me think there was anything I couldn’t do.” (Susan Kenney)
• Psychologists have written much about the need to be loved. Less has been said about the need to love. Your love becomes overwhelming when its object is helpless and dependent and your own hold on life seems uncertain. Perhaps Plato was right when he said that our love for our children springs from the soul’s yearning for immortality. I lower my sleeping son into his crib. The Chopin record will shut off automatically after a while, and the house will be still until the baby’s first importunate cry in the morning. One more precious, irreplaceable day is ending, and I am fulfilled. (Richard Taylor, from the New York Times, March 29, 1987)
• I might have a sex change operation and become a nun, but outside of that I do not think my life could possibly have changed more than it did by becoming a father. And when my son looks up at me and breaks into his wonderful toothless smile, my eyes fill up and I know that having him is the best thing I will ever do. (Dan Greenberg, ‘CONFESSIONS OF A PREGNANT FATHER.’)
• Dad, your little boy is your captor, your jailer, your boss and your master – a freckled-faced, pint-sized, cat-chasing bundle of noise. (Alan Beck)
• “Almost every time I watch my daughters playing near me, especially in a physical way, an unusual feeling takes hold of me. I do not identify with the big smiling male whose offspring play at his feet, although I do expect to feel like this, looking at their tiny bodies and my own big one. On the contrary, I feel small and open. I feel as if the three of us are learning independently how to be dependant on one another. (Morcechai Rimor)
• Once Knute playfully demanded of one of the boys an account of his age. He answered, “Seven.” “Impossible” his father said; “no young man could possibly get quite so dirty in seven years.” Then he tried to placate the boy’s mother with a grotesquely penitential look. (Bonnie Rockne, from a note in her husband’s autobiography)
• Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their father. (Proverbs 17:6)
• What is equally maddening about the visit of your child to some distant home is the call you get from the mother or father there telling you how lovely and helpful your child has been. “I just can’t tell you what a polite young gentleman he is,” the mother says. “He straightened his room and he made his bed and he even offered to do the dishes.” At moments like these, you truly feel that you have fallen down the rabbit hole. (Bill Cosby, from ‘FATHERHOOD’)
• You heard it said that fathers want their sons to be what they feel they cannot themselves be, but I tell you it also works the other way. A boy wants something very special from his father. (Sherwood Anderson, 1876 – 1941)
• Parents repeat their lives in their offspring; and their esteem for them is so great, that they feel their sufferings and taste their enjoyments as much as if they were their own. (Kay Palmer)
• If you’ve never seen a real, fully developed look of disgust, just tell your son how you conducted yourself when you were a boy. (Kin Hubbard, ‘ABE MARTIN ON THINGS IN GENERAL’)
• No man is really depraved who can spend half an hour by himself on the floor playing with his little boy’s electric train. (Simeon Strunsky)
• Father, be very careful how you spend your time with your children. There is nothing more precious. (Unknown Author)
• “The father of a daughter, especially one in her teens, will find that she doesn’t like to be seen walking with him in the street. In fact, she will often ask him to walk a few passes behind. The father should not take this outdoor demotion personally; it is simply a matter of clothes. His are rotten. Every American daughter is an authority on fashion, and one of the things she knows is that her father dresses as somebody in the Mummers Parade.” (Bill Cosby, b. 1939, from ‘FATHERHOOD’)
• In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. (Isaac Rosenfeld)
• Heredity is what a man believes in until his son begins to behave like a delinquent. (Presbyterian Life)
• One of the nicest things about being a father is that you don’t have to stop being a son. In fact, there’s no way around it. Fathers are sons – both subject and predicate, enjoying a privileged two-in-oneness. The fortunate father/son can draw sustenance from two directions – wisdom, strength, and compassion from his own father, and insight and joy from his sons. The child may be father of the man, but if you look closely into your own son’s eyes, you’ll probably see your father staring back at you. (Jon Stewart, from ‘THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER’, June 15, 1986)
• A happy childhood can’t be cured. Mine’ll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that’s all, instead of a noose. (Anonymous)
• The essential skill of parenting is making up answers. When an experienced father is driving down the road and his kid asks him how much a certain building weighs, he doesn’t hesitate for a second. “Three thousand, four hundred and fifty-seven tons,” he says. (Dave Barry)
• The trouble with dads who know the facts is that they don’t seem the same facts the teacher knows. (Pam Brown, b 1928)
• Fathers should not get too discouraged if their sons reject their advice. It will not be wasted; years later the sons will offer it to their own offspring. (Anonymous)
• 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 astounded at how much the old man had learned in seven years. (Mark Twain, 1835 – 1910)
• The children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them – thus preserving the system. (Quentin Crewe)
• Safe, for a child, is his father’s hand, holding him tight. (Pam Brown, b 1928)
• He makes fuzz come out of my bald patch! (Charles A Lindbergh, 1902 – 1974, about his son)
• “Thirty-four years of unbroken kindness, of cloudless sunshine, of perpetual joy, of constant love. Thirty-four years of happy smiles, of loving looks and gentle words, of generous deeds. Thirty-four years, a flower, a palm, a star, a faultless child, a perfect woman, wife, and mother.” (Robert G. Ingersoll, 1833-1899, in a birthday note to his daughter Eve)
• Many an excellent man is tempted to forget that the best offering he can make to his children is himself. (Henry Neumann)
• I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father. (Thomas Campbell)
• The individual human cycle is not whole until man and woman look back to parents who gave them life and forward to the children to whom they themselves give life. Only thus does the individual feel assured of his place in the eternal scheme of creation. Only thus does his heart find rest. (Pearl Buck, 1892 – 1973, from THE JOY OF CHILDREN)
• The need for a father is as crucial as the need for a son, and the search of each for the other – through all the days of one’s life – exempts no one. Happy the man who finds both. (Max Lerner, b 1902)
• The Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. He will show him even greater things to do than this, and you will all be amazed. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• I knew he was as fine a dad as any boy ever had – kind, cheerful, humorous, hard-working and patient; severe at times over my indifferent effort and boyish carelessness, but severe always with a kindly purpose, and very proud of his children whenever they did anything which seemed worthy. What I didn’t know until too late was the depth of his wisdom and the magnitude of his sacrifice. (Edgar A Guest)
• “You will never be free again. You live two lives now, hers and your own. And the greatest pain is to let her make her own choices – whatever your experience foretells. Mercifully, this life link carries happiness as well as heartache. You are allowed to touch her joys, to share the triumphs and excitements. Distance can not divide you. There will be nights without sleep. Days of waiting for a word. But letters. Unexpected phone calls. The astonishment of standing at the doorstep when you thought her half a world away. And happiness beyond anything you ever thought possible. Surprises. Amazement. For she is your diamond daughter. She can cut across your heart and mind. (Rosanne Ambrose-Brown, b. 1943)
• It never occurs to a boy that he will some day be as dumb as his father. (Dr. Laurence J Peter)
• What feeling is so nice as a child’s hand in yours? So small, so soft and warm, like a kitten huddling in the shelter of your clasp.” (Marjorie Holmes, from ’CALENDAR OF LOVE AND INSPIRATION’)
• “He would sit on her knee and look at her face, testing her contours with fingers that in the early days, judging distances, jabbed at a bright eye or clawed lip-corner, and grew rapidly skilled at caressing, patting her cheek, tangling her hair. She saw herself in him: the learning face was her face. They looked into each other’s eyes and she saw herself reflected, a looming light, a loving moon, part of himself? His flesh was her flesh….” (A.S. Byatt, b. 1936, from ‘STILL LIFE’)
• “ “My child looked at me and I looked back at him in the delivery room, and I realized that out of a sea of infinite possibilities it had come down to this: a specific person, born on the hottest day of the year, conceived on a Christmas Eve, made by his father and me miraculously from scratch.” (Anna Quindlen, from ‘NEW YORK TIMES’, March 13, 1986)
• “If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in.” (Rachel Carson, 1907-1964)
• “In his mother’s heart no baby ever grows up completely and in some mysterious fashion a part of every man remains a child, peculiarly his mother’s, even though they are estranged. In that case there is a sorrow for them both but whatever sense of hurt or injustice a man may harbour, he knows, in the depth of his soul, that his mother is waiting always for his return.” (Dame Enid Lyons)
• “In the sheltered simplicity of the first days after a baby is born, one sees again the magical closed circle, the miraculous sense of two people existing only for each other.” (Anne Morrow Lindbergh, 1906 – 2001)
• “It’s such a powerful connection; it takes me by surprise. I feel like there’s a dotted line connecting me to my son.” (Sarah Langston)
• Raising kids is part joy and part guerilla warfare. (Ed Asner)
• “A child’s hand in yours – what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.” (Marjorie Holmes, from ’ CALENDAR OF LOVE AND INSPIRATION’)
• A Father’s Prayer
My dear Heavenly Father,
Thank you for being accessible, sensitive to my desires, tender toward my wounds, concerned about by responsibilities.
I, too, am a father. So I know you understand me. Sometimes I love being a father. Sometimes it is a burden I don't know how to carry.
Please help me to hear your voice, obey your instructions and be the father that pleases your heart, even when my family is not happy with my decisions.
Thank you for children who are truly the heritage of the Lord and the companion that you have assigned to me.
Your word has been my consistent hope, the only thing that has never changed in my life, and the only promises my heart is capable of believing.
I embrace your wisdom every single day of my life.
In Jesus Name. Amen. ( A Father's prayer)
Questions
Module 3b - Father’s Quotes:
1. Which quote is your favourate parents quote?
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2. Write down your own quotes! Be creative.
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Please read further to assist you with your answers & reflections!
Module 3c:Son’s Quotes
• You can not be a son, if you do not have a father fathering you. You can not be a father, if you weren’t a son with a father. (David Hercules Pienaar, b. 1969)
• “All dad have their special whistle, their special call. Their own knock. Their way of walking. Their imprint on our lives. We think we forgot but then, out of the darkness, comes a little trill of notes and our hearts lift. And we are five years old again and waiting for Dad’s footsteps on the gravel path.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• By definition a son is not only an individual but also part of a family system. Sometimes high - or low - expectations can make this role hard to bear. Yet there is a place for pleasure and pride in those who continue the family line, accepting their heritage, with all the responsibility this entails. It is easier, too, with a model we can follow: the Son of God himself. (Heartfelt Fathers)
• If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. (William Shakespeare)
• There is a Spanish proverb, which says very justly: 'Tell me whom you live with, and I tell you who you are.' (Lord Chesterfield to his son, 9 October 1747)
• If you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and which is more - you'll be a Man, my son! (Rudyard Kipling)
• I don't know what I may seem to the world, but as to myself, I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me. (Isaac Newton)
• “I know I have my father wrapped around my finger, but he has me wrapped around his.” (Holly Heston, daughter of Charlton Heston)
• “Father: Someone we can look up to no matter how tall we get.” (Anonymous)
• “With my father life became an adventure. The minute he walked in the door at night, even the house seemed to take on a new energy, like a surge of electricity. Everything became charged, brighter, more colourful, more exciting….All fathers are, at first, heroes to their daughters, even when they are anything but heroic.” (Victor Secunda)
• He was still a long way from home when his father saw him; his heart was filled with pity, and he ran, threw his arms around his son, and kissed him. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• I sighed as a lover, I obeyed as a son. (Edward Gibbon)
• “You appear to me so superior, so elevated above other men, I contemplate you with such a strange mixture of humility, admiration, reverence, love, and pride, that very little superstition would be necessary to make me worship you as a superior being….I had rather not live than be the daughter of such a man.” (Theodosia Burr, in a letter to her father, Aaron Burr)
• My dad was always there for me and my brother, and I want my kids to have the same kind of dad – a dad they will remember. Being a dad is the most important thing in my life. (Kevin Costner)
• Inspire me with ability to seek repose and hope among eternal things - Father of heaven and earth! And I am rich, and will possess my portion in content. (William Wordsworth)
• Do not store up riches for yourselves here on earth, where moths and rust destroy, and robbers break in and steal. Instead, store up riches for yourselves in heaven. (NEW TESTAMENT)
• “A mother’s love for a child of her body differs essentially from all other affections, and burns with so steady and clear a flame that it appears like the one unchangeable things in this earthly mutable life, so that when she is no longer present it is still a light to our steps and a consolation.” (W. H. Hudson, 1841 – 1922)
• Respect your father and your mother, so that you may live a long time in the land that I am giving you. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• “The lead in the old man’s feet and hanging hands. Weights in my heart and in my head. Where is the laughing creature, mountain high, The dear companion of another day? We walked together then, on Saturdays. Went to the galleries and heard the Proms. Saw the play from the pit. And argued and walked and talked, Father and daughter, liking the same poor puns, meeting on common ground. His judgments all were true. I had no doubt at all, He knew. (Joyce Grenfell, 1910-1979, from “FATHER AND DAUGHTER”
• Great actions, from their nature, are not done in the closet; they are performed in the face of the sun, and on behalf of the world. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
• A wise son makes his father proud of him. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• “My dad is the backbone of our family. Any problem that I’ve ever had, he’s always been there for me.” (Whitney Houston)
• “My father is the standard by which all subsequent men in my life have been judged.” (Kathryn McCarthy Graham)
• “Parents, however old they and we may grow to be, serve among other things to shield us from a sense of our doom. As long as they are around, we can avoid the fact of our mortality; we can still be innocent children.” (Elizabeth Jane Howard, b. 1923, from ‘A DIFFERENT WOMAN’)
• “Her father was her friend and mentor, who taught her to read, love books, type, swim, and ride a bike. ‘I spend hours with him in his study, going for walks, going to the church, helping him garden, sitting quietly while he wrote his sermons.’ It sounds like a perfect father/daughter relationship except for one worm in the apple. ‘I think I was his favourite but I have never dared ask my sisters if they think so too, possibly because I’m afraid they’d both say that they were.’” (Cyra McFadden, about a vicar’s daughter in Hamshire, England)
• Watch me, I can do anything! (Philip {Aged Seven})
• She is their earth….She is their food and their bed and the extra blanket when it grows cold in the night; she is their warmth and their health and their shelter…(Katharine Butler Halhaway)
• I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in fifty years what my father taught by example in one week. (Mario Cuomo)
• …your father is a great man whether or not he’s a worldly success. He’s someone you can look up to. He helps shape your worldview, dispenses discipline, teaches object lessons, hands down material and moral legacies. (John Winokur, from ‘FATHERS’.)
• The memory of Papa – tall, dark-haired, with a neatly trimmed mustache, smiling, warm and loving – is still vivid in my mind. It will never fade. (Leo Buscaglia)
• The only constant with God for us, his sons and daughters, is change! (David Hercules Pienaar, b. 1969)
• “With all my heart I wish all the loving fathers of this world – cut off from their families by want or work or war – could be safe home again. For I know how much it means to have such a father – how much I need him in the small, everyday things – and just how much he needs me.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because you have known the Father. (NEW TESTAMENT)
• “She didn’t love her father – she idolized him. He was the one great love of her life. No other man ever measured up to him.” (Mary S. Lovell, about Beryl Markham)
• “I was my father’s daughter….He is dead now and I am a grown woman and still I am my father’s daughter….I am many things besides, but I am daddy’s girl too and so I will remain – all the way to the old folks’ home.” (Paula Weideger)
• If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father's commands and remain in His love. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• “Romance fails us and so do friendships but the relationship between Mother and Child remains indelible and indestructible – the strongest bond upon the earth.” (Theodor Reik)
• “A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have in their power to bestow.” (R. Cholmondeley)
• “She (mother) was so deeply imbedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers was my mother in disguise.” ( Philip Roth, b. 1933, from ‘PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT’)
• “There is an enduring tenderness in the love of a mother to a son that transcends all other affections of the heart. It is neither to be chilled by selfishness, nor daunted by danger, nor weakened by worthlessness, nor stifled by ingratitude. She will sacrifice every comfort to his convenience; she will surrender every pleasure to his enjoyment; she will glory in his fame and exalt in his prosperity; and if adversity overtake him, he will be the dearer to her by misfortune; and if disgrace settle upon his name, she will still love and cherish him; and if all the world beside cast him off, she will be all the world to him.” (Washington Irving, 1783 – 1859)
• “The child, in the decisive first years of his life, has the experience of his mother, as an all-enveloping, protective nourishing power. Mother is food; she is love; she is warmth; she is earth. To be loved by her means to be alive, to be rooted, to be at home.” (Erich Fromm, 1900-1980)
• “My mother always phones me and asks, ‘Is everything all wrong?’” (Richard Lewis)
• “Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had it, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me in like an atmosphere.” (D.H. Lawrence, 1885-1930)
• “To my mother I tell the truth. I have no thought, no feeling that I cannot share with my mother, and she is like a second conscience to me, her eyes like a mirror reflecting my own image.” (William Gerhardi, 1895-1977)
• “Mothers don’t really have premonitions. They have been over every possible eventuality so often – both good and ill – that whatever happens to you, they’ve rehearsed it.” (Pam Brown, b. 1928)
• “’You getting to be,’ she said, putting her hand beneath his chin and holding his face away from her, ‘a right big boy. You going to be a mighty fine man, you know that? Your mamma’s counting on you.’ And he knew again that she was not saying everything she meant; in a kind of secret language she was telling him something that he must remember and understand tomorrow. He watched her face, his heart swollen with love for her and with an anguish, not yet his own, that he did not understand and that frightened him. ‘Yes, Ma,’ he said, hoping she would realize, despite his stammering tongue, the depth of his passion to please her.” (James Baldwin, 1924-1938, from ‘GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAIN’)
• You too, my mother, read me rhymes
For love of unforgotten times,
And you may chance
to hear once more
The little feet along the floor. (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850 – 1894)
• “Who is it that loves me and will love me for ever with an affection which no chance, no misery, no crime of mine can do away? It is you, my mother.” (Thomas Carlyle, 1795 – 1881, In a letter to his mother, August 29, 1824)
• “Fifty-four years of love and tenderness and crossness and devotion and unswerving loyalty. Without her I could only have achieved a quarter of what I have achieved, not only in terms of success and career, but in terms of personal happiness. We have quarreled, often violently, over the years, but she has never stood between me and my life, never tried to hold me to tightly, always let me go free. For a woman of her strength of character this was truly remarkable….There was no fear in her except for me. She was a great woman to whom I owe the whole of my life.” (Nöel Coward, 1899 – 1973)
• “The God to whom little boys say their prayers has a face very like their mother’s.” (James M. Barrie, 1860 – 1937)
• “If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it.” (Kate Douglas Wiggin, 1856 – 1953)
• “Children, look into those eyes, listen to the dear voice, notice the feeling of even a single hand! Make much of it while you have that most precious gift of all gifts, - a loving mother. Read the unfathomable love of those eyes; the kind anxiety of that tone and look, however slight the pain. In after life you may have friends, fond, dear friends, but never will you have again the inexpressible love and gentleness lavished upon you, which none but mother bestows.” (Thomas Babington MaCaulay, 1800 – 1859)
• “How many thousands of heroines there must be now, of whom we shall never know. But still they are there. They sow in secret the seed which we pluck the flower, and eat the fruit, and know not that we pass the sewer daily in the streets. One form of heroism – the most common, and yet the least remembered of all – namely, the heroism of the average mother. Ah! When I think of that broad fact, I gather hope again for poor humanity; and this dark world looks bright – this diseased world looks wholesome to me once more – because, whatever else it is not full of, it is at least full of mothers.” (Charles Kingsley, 1819 – 1875)
• “Probably there is nothing in human nature more resonant with charges than the flow of energy between two biologically alike bodies, one of which has lain in amniotic bliss inside the other, one of which has labored to give birth to the other.” (Adrienne Rich, b. 1939)
• “I was not close to my father, but he was very special to me. Whenever I did something as a little girl – learn to swim or act in a school play, for instance – he was fabulous. There would be this certain look in his eyes. It made me feel great.” (Diane Keaton)
• “A family is like a carton box. The father is the walls that protect and secure it. The mother is the glue that keeps it together. The children are the paintings on the walls that make the box interesting!” (David Hercules Pienaar, b. 1969)
Questions
Module 3c - Son’s Quotes:
1. Which quote is your favorite children’s quote?
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2. Write down your own quotes! Be creative.
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Please read further to assist you with your answers & reflections!
Module 3d: Wisdom Quotes
• The highest task of intelligence is to grasp and realize genuine opportunity, possibility. (John Dewey)
• Your need of love (or for that matter anything you need) does not depend on how many people reach out to you, it depends on how many people you reach out to! (David Hercules Pienaar, b. 1969)
• My son, pay attention to my wisdom; lend your ear to my understanding, that you may preserve discretion, and your lips may keep knowledge. (Proverbs 5:1-2)
• You will never fail if you never stop trying (Francis Gay)
• In a child’s lunch basket, a mother’s thoughts. (JAPANESE PROVERB)
• The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom; a good understanding have all those who do His commandments. His praise endures forever. (Psalm 111:10)
• Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. (Franklin D. Roosevelt)
• How much better to get wisdom than gold! And to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver. (Proverbs 16:16)
• Joy is the echo of God’s life within us. (Joseph Marmion)
• The days of our lives are seventy years; and if by reason of strength they are eighty years, yet their boast is only labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away. Who knows the power of Your anger? For as the fear of You, so is Your wrath. So teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom. (Psalm 90:10-12)
• Get wisdom! Get understanding! Do not forget, nor turn away from the words of my mouth. Do not forsake her, and she will preserve you; love her, and she will keep you. Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Exalt her, and she will promote you; she will bring you honour, when you embrace her. She will place on your head an ornament of grace; a crown of glory she will deliver to you. Hear, my son, and receive my sayings, and the years of your live will be many. I have taught you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in right paths. (Proverbs 4:5-11)
• When suffering comes into our lives, we should accept it with a smile. This is the greatest gift from God: to have the courage to accept everything He gives us and asks of us with a smile. (Mother Teresa)
• If you keep within your heart a green branch. I have heard there will come one day a singing bird. (E. Stanley Jones)
• However, we speak wisdom among those who are mature, yet not the wisdom of this age, nor of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God ordained before the ages for our glory, which none of the rulers of this age knew; for had they known, they wouldn't have crucified the Lord of glory. (1 Cor. 2:6-8)
• But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, willing to yield, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and hypocrisy. (James 3:17)
• If any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and it will be given to him. But let him ask in faith, with no doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven and tossed by the wind. (James 1:5-6)
• The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. If you are wise, you are wise for yourself, and if you scoff, you will bear it alone. (Proverbs 9:10,12)
• To affirm all that we believe of God’s Love, His mercy, His Truth, His Almighty Power and His Changelessness, turns our thoughts away from our troubles. (E. Howard Cobb)
• My son, keep my words, and lay up my commandments with thee. (OLD TESTAMENT)
• We must trust God. We must trust not only that he does what is best, but that he knows what is ahead. (Max Lucado)
• God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? Or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good? (OLD TESTAMENT)
• God does not love us because we are valuable. We are valuable because God loves us. (Fulton J. Sheen)
• A wise man fears and departs from evil, but a fool rages and is self-confident. (Proverbs 14:16)
• My son, keep my words, and treasure my commands within you. Keep my commands and live, and my law as the apple of your eye. Bind them on your fingers; write them on the tablet of your heart. Say to wisdom, "You are my sister," and call understanding your nearest kin, that they may keep you from the immoral woman, from the seductress who flatters with her words. (Proverbs 7:1-5)
• To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it, but we sail, and not drift, nor live at anchor. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
• There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle. (Albert Einstein)
• “If there is one thing that I know, it is that my words are true, my yes is yes, and my no is no! I do not make promises, because promises by men are made to be broken.” (David Hercules Pienaar, b.1969)
• Talent develops in quiet places, character in the full current of human life. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
• The only way you can be a manager and not a damager, is to be a spiritual leader with wisdom! (David Hercules Pienaar, b. 1969)
• Psalms 37:30 The mouth of the righteous speaketh wisdom, and his tongue talketh of judgment.
• Psalms 49:3 My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding.
• Psalms 51:6 Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
• Psalms 90:12 ¶So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
• Psalms 104:24 O LORD, how manifold are thy works! in wisdom hast thou made them all: the earth is full of thy riches.
• Psalms 105:22 To bind his princes at his pleasure; and teach his senators wisdom.
• Psalms 111:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: a good understanding have all they that do his commandments: his praise endureth for ever.
• Psalms 136:5 To him that by wisdom made the heavens: for his mercy endureth for ever.
• Proverbs 1:2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
• Proverbs 1:3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
• Proverbs 1:7 ¶The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
• Proverbs 1:20 ¶Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets:
• Proverbs 2:2 So that thou incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply thine heart to understanding;
• Proverbs 2:6 For the LORD giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.
• Proverbs 2:7 He layeth up sound wisdom for the righteous: he is a buckler to them that walk uprightly.
• Proverbs 2:10 ¶When wisdom entereth into thine heart, and knowledge is pleasant unto thy soul;
• Proverbs 3:13 ¶Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.
• Proverbs 3:19 The LORD by wisdom hath founded the earth; by understanding hath he established the heavens.
• Proverbs 3:21 ¶My son, let not them depart from thine eyes: keep sound wisdom and discretion:
• Proverbs 4:5 Get wisdom, get understanding: forget it not; neither decline from the words of my mouth.
• Proverbs 4:7 Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
• Proverbs 4:11 I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.
• Proverbs 5:1 ¶My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:
• Proverbs 7:4 Say unto wisdom, Thou art my sister; and call understanding thy kinswoman:
• Proverbs 8:1 ¶Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice?
• Proverbs 8:5 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.
• Proverbs 8:11 For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it.
• Proverbs 8:12 ¶I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.
• Proverbs 8:14 Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.
• Proverbs 9:1 ¶Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:
• Proverbs 9:10 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding.
• Proverbs 10:13 ¶In the lips of him that hath understanding wisdom is found: but a rod is for the back of him that is void of understanding.
• Proverbs 10:21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom.
• Proverbs 10:23 ¶It is as sport to a fool to do mischief: but a man of understanding hath wisdom.
• Proverbs 10:31 ¶The mouth of the just bringeth forth wisdom: but the froward tongue shall be cut out.
• Proverbs 11:2 ¶When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
• Proverbs 11:12 ¶He that is void of wisdom despiseth his neighbour: but a man of understanding holdeth his peace.
• Proverbs 12:8 ¶A man shall be commended according to his wisdom: but he that is of a perverse heart shall be despised.
• Proverbs 13:10 ¶Only by pride cometh contention: but with the well advised is wisdom.
• Proverbs 14:6 ¶A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth.
• Proverbs 14:8 ¶The wisdom of the prudent is to understand his way: but the folly of fools is deceit.
• Proverbs 14:33 ¶Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding: but that which is in the midst of fools is made known.
• Proverbs 15:21 ¶Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
• Proverbs 15:21 ¶Folly is joy to him that is destitute of wisdom: but a man of understanding walketh uprightly.
• Proverbs 15:33 ¶The fear of the LORD is the instruction of wisdom; and before honour is humility.
• Proverbs 16:16 ¶How much better is it to get wisdom than gold! and to get understanding rather to be chosen than silver!
• Proverbs 17:16 ¶Wherefore is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he hath no heart to it?
• Proverbs 17:24 ¶Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
• Proverbs 18:1 ¶Through desire a man, having separated himself, seeketh and intermeddleth with all wisdom.
• Proverbs 18:4 ¶The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the wellspring of wisdom as a flowing brook.
• Proverbs 19:8 ¶He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.
• Proverbs 21:30 ¶There is no wisdom nor understanding nor counsel against the LORD.
• Proverbs 23:4 ¶Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
• Proverbs 23:9 ¶Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words.
• Proverbs 23:23 Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.
• Proverbs 24:3 ¶Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established:
• Proverbs 24:7 ¶Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.
• Proverbs 24:14 So shall the knowledge of wisdom be unto thy soul: when thou hast found it, then there shall be a reward, and thy expectation shall not be cut off.
• Proverbs 29:3 ¶Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.
• Proverbs 29:15 ¶The rod and reproof give wisdom: but a child left to himself bringeth his mother to shame.
• Proverbs 30:3 I neither learned wisdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy.
• Proverbs 31:26 She openeth her mouth with wisdom; and in her tongue is the law of kindness.
Questions
Module 3d:
1. Which quote is your favourate wisdom quote?
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2. Write down your own quotes! Be creative.
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Please read further to assist you with your answers & reflections!
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