{"quotes":[{"text":"Every parent is an artist, for the bared canvas of a newborn’s soul begs for the artist’s touch. And because this is so, a parent must prepare the palette with the utmost care, choose the brushes with poised caution, and mindfully attend to every brushstroke regardless of how slight. And such caution is utterly imperative for the emerging rendering will be both a legacy borne of the parent, and a life lived by the child.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["artist","child","children","crafting","creating","dad","family","father","father-s-day","mom","mother","mother-s-day","parent","parenting","raising-children","sacrifice"],"id":36023,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Fatherhood is sacred.","author":"Lailah Gifty Akita","tags":["blessed-life","christian","christian-living","couple","divine","faith","father","father-s-day","fathers-and-sons","holy","life","love","marriage","parenting-advice","relationship","romance","spiritual"],"id":57514,"author_id":"Lailah+Gifty+Akita"},{"text":"The best fathers have the softest, sweetest hearts. In other words, great dads are real marshmallows.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["dad-s-day","dads","father-s-day","fathers","great-dads","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich","the-best-fathers"],"id":103499,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"The difference between a ‘man’ and a ‘father’ is that the former shares his genes, but latter gives his life.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["child-children","commit","commitment","dad","daddy","families","family","father","father-s-day","fatherhood","genes","giving","legacy","male","man","men","parent","parenting","sacrifice","sacrificial","sacrificing","sharing"],"id":117341,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A ‘good’ father will tenderly cultivate his children. But a ‘good’ father who is also a ‘brave’ father will let the children without cultivate the child within.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["brave","bravery","child","children","cultivate","father","father-s-day","fatherhood","inner-child","kid","kids","parent","parenting","raise","raising","raising-children","upbringing"],"id":125900,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"Fathers are… The teeth on a saw,The head of a nail,The blades on a mower.Fathers are…The grit in a tumbler,The cement in the pit,The coin for the machine.Fathers are…The air in the tires,The spring in the suspension,The key to the ignition.Fathers are... The confidence in a dare,The energy of a command,The boots for the trail.Tis true you might make things work without them, but not at all like they were meant to.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["dads","father-s-day","father-s-day","fathers","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":125908,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"Fathers are… The teeth on a saw,The head of a nail,The blades on a mower.Fathers are…The grit in a tumbler,The cement in the pit,The coin for the machine.Fathers are…The air in the tires,The spring in the suspension,The key to the ignition.Fathers are... The confidence in a dare,The energy of a command,The boots for the trail.Tis true you might make things work without them, but not at all like they were meant to.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["dads","father-s-day","father-s-day","fathers","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":125908,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"A great father is one whose children look up to him rather than away from him.","author":"Richelle E. Goodrich","tags":["dad","father","father-s-day","fathers","parenting","richelle","richelle-e-goodrich","richelle-goodrich"],"id":142568,"author_id":"Richelle+E.+Goodrich"},{"text":"If we fail to instill a fixed sense of confidence in our children, we will raise handicapped children who have no handicap other than the conviction that they believe they do.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["belief","believing","child","children","confidence","confident","conviction","father","father-s-day","handicap","handicapped","ingrain","ingraining","inheritance","kids","legacy","mistaken","mother","mother-s-day","nurture","nurturing","parent","parenthood","parenting","perception","raise","upbringing"],"id":160941,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"},{"text":"A father teaches his children that the battle is not determined by the enemy that stands around them, but by the God Who stands within them. And that lesson can only be driven home as they watch their father stand around them, while God stands within their father.","author":"Craig D. Lounsbrough","tags":["battle","christian","christianity","dad","daddy","enemy","example","father","father-s-day","fatherhood","fight","god","illustrate","mentor","parent","parenting","role-model","struggle"],"id":213891,"author_id":"Craig+D.+Lounsbrough"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":20,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}