Archive for June, 2008
To my heroes
© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008
Dad’s Aloysius, Frank and Harry, Happy Father’s Day!
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
~ Knights of Pythagoras
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
~ Author Unknown
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~Author Unknown
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
~Albert Camus
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don’t disappoint him.
~ Alan Beck
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
~ Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
~ Julie Benz
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night.
~Margaret Atwood
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~Harmon Killebrew
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
~Michael Foot
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Dad’s Aloysius, Frank and Harry, Happy Father’s Day!
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.
~ Knights of Pythagoras
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
~ Author Unknown
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
~Author Unknown
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.
~Albert Camus
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job.
~ Simone De Beauvoir
What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can - don’t disappoint him.
~ Alan Beck
When a man and a woman have an overwhelming passion for each other, it seems to me, in spite of such obstacles dividing them as parents or husband, that they belong to each other in the name of Nature, and are lovers by Divine right, in spite of human convention or the laws.
~ Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I really take pride in the relationship that I have with my husband.
~ Julie Benz
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All fathers are invisible in daytime; daytime is ruled by mothers and fathers come out at night.
~Margaret Atwood
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~Harmon Killebrew
Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read.
~Michael Foot
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© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~Enid Bagnold
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
~Johann Schiller
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
~Author 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, “Old Times on the Mississippi” Atlantic Monthly, 1874
Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.
~Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~Gloria Naylor
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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~Phyllis Diller
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown
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
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
~Red Buttons
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
~Author Unknown
There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~Dinah Craik
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.
~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~Bill Cosby
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
~William Wordsworth
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.
~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
~Enid Bagnold
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
~Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
~Johann Schiller
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
~Author 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, “Old Times on the Mississippi” Atlantic Monthly, 1874
Dad, you’re someone to look up to no matter how tall I’ve grown.
~Author Unknown
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
~Gloria Naylor
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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t.
~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
~Phyllis Diller
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
~Marceline Desbordes-Valmore
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown
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
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
~Red Buttons
I don’t care how poor a man is; if he has family, he’s rich.
~M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever.
~Author Unknown
There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away.
~Dinah Craik
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”
~Harmon Killebrew
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.
~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
~Bill Cosby
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
~William Wordsworth
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
~Clarence Budington Kelland
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Blog-entries protected by digital fingerprint:0964acc1331c0d652a1372531c5f5208Breast Cancer Awareness
© Copyright Ada Kanu 2008
As you may have noticed, I have added a breast cancer awareness ribbon to my sidebar, in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness.
While I do not have any friends or family afflicted by breast cancer, as a daughter and mom it is something I often think of.
In honor of those brave survivors, I’d like to start a dedication wall, so if you or a loved one would like to share your story and
leave a link, I am sure visitors to this site would enjoy the opportunity to visit and leave comments and/or words of encouragement.
As some of you may have read, my father-in-law has now been in remission coming up a year in August, as with any disease, the immune system is greatly weakened and susceptible to diseases, so later today he will be going into eye surgery. So while you go about your day, if you could say a little prayer, wish, positive energy for a successful outcome.
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As you may have noticed, I have added a breast cancer awareness ribbon to my sidebar, in support of National Breast Cancer Awareness.
While I do not have any friends or family afflicted by breast cancer, as a daughter and mom it is something I often think of.
In honor of those brave survivors, I’d like to start a dedication wall, so if you or a loved one would like to share your story and
leave a link, I am sure visitors to this site would enjoy the opportunity to visit and leave comments and/or words of encouragement.
As some of you may have read, my father-in-law has now been in remission coming up a year in August, as with any disease, the immune system is greatly weakened and susceptible to diseases, so later today he will be going into eye surgery. So while you go about your day, if you could say a little prayer, wish, positive energy for a successful outcome.
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