Sunday, June 20, 2010

A Day For Quotes ~Happy Father’s Day

Happy Father’s Day to all the great Dads out there!  I have been very fortunate in my life to have had a wonderful Dad of my own, who passed away just over 2 years ago.  I also have the joy of watching my own husband be a wonderful Father to our 2 children.  Happy Father’s Day honey!

 

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   ~Margaret Truman

 

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty   ~Unknown

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A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be ~Unknown

 

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 he had learned in seven years.  ~Mark Twain

 

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There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.  ~John Gregory Brown

 

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys  ~Unknown

 

A Day With Two



4 comments:

Melanie @ Whimsical Creations said...

Beautiful!!

Frugal Science Gal said...

I will be posting a new quote EVERY Sunday and will be linking it up with you. If you make the linky available, I will post it on my post as well! :-)

Frugal Science Gal
http://frugalsciencegal.blogspot.com/

Denise said...

Great pictures!

Ginny Marie said...

What a great day for quotes! I'm so sorry you lost your dad. This year was my first Mother's Day without my mom, and it was really hard.

The wallet quotes is hysterical (and true!)