Healing Hands of Reiki

Oh, Happy Day

Hope all you dads and offspring had a wonderful day together.  Here are a few of my favorite Father’s Day quotes for inspiration or contemplation.  If you have a favorite quote you don’t see here, make sure to leave it in the comments area.

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

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  ~Bill Cosby

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.  Mario Cuomo

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 wasastonished at how much he had learned in seven years.  Mark Twain   

It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~Kent Nerburn

“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers.” – David Gottesman

A man’s worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own. ~Lisa Rogers

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get. ~Tim Russert

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it. Harry S. Truman

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.” – Amy Heckerling

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