Holding Father’s Hand…

A touching image for father, or from a father to a child, that can be customised for any occasion or holiday from Father’s Day, a birthday, Christmas, to just letting the other know they are loved. There is a selection of quotes below available to customise the product with, if desired. Matching poster, cards, postcards and postage stamps available. Image: Jen

“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” -Sigmund Freud.

“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

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.” -Mario Cuomo

“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

“By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven.'” - Douglas MaCarthur

“Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son. You will never know the sense of honour that makes a man want to be more than he is and to pass something good and hopeful into the hands of his son. And you will never know the heartbreak of the fathers who are haunted by the personal demons that keep them from being the men they want their sons to be.” - Kent Nerburn