Sunday Quotes – Happy Fathers’ Day

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He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. 

Clarence Budington Kelland

Making the decision to have a child is momentous.  It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. 

Elizabeth Stone

A father is a banker provided by nature.

French proverb

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

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

Ruth E. Renkel

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. 

Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain but no evidence has yet been found for this

Sunday Quotes – Mother’s Day

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Mothers hold their children’s hands for a short while, but their hearts forever.

Author Unknown

All mothers are working mothers.

Author Unknown

If you have a mom, there is nowhere you are likely to go where a prayer has not already been. 

Robert Brault

Now that… my kids are grown, I understand how much work and love it takes to raise and to keep a family together.  The example of your strength, devotion, and patience is now rippling through the generations.  Thank you! 

Forest Houtenschil

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Setting a good example for your children takes all the fun out of middle age. 

William Feather, The Business of Life, 1949

Sing out loud in the car even, or especially, if it embarrasses your children.

Marilyn Penland

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