He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me
watch him do it.
- Clarence Budington Kelland
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with
me forever.
- Author Unknown
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
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is
soap-on-a-rope.
- Bill Cosby
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
A father is always making his baby into a little woman.
And when she is a woman he turns her back
again.
- Enid Bagnold
And my dad, you’re a great actor but you’re a better
father.
- Angelina Jolie
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices
call him father!
- Lydia M. Child
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us
fathers and sons.
- Johann Schiller
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the
need for a father’s protection.
- Sigmund Freud
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
My father was very strong. I don’t agree with a lot of
the ways he brought me up. I don’t agree with a lot of his values,
but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do
something, he didn’t do it either.
- Madonna
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
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices
call him father!
- Lydia M.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would
kill you quicker if they didn’t.
- Barbara Kingsolver
Every parent is at some time the father of the
unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to
hope.
- John Ciardi
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son
gives to his father, both cry.
- William Shakespeare
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
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly
searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several
and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
- Alice Walker
To be a successful father there’s one absolute rule:
when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two
years.
- Ernest Hemingway
Are we not like two volumes of one
book?
- Marceline Desbordes
That is the thankless position of the father in the
family-the provider for all, and the enemy of
all.
- August Strindberg
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is
a very small one, particularly if he plays
golf.
- Bertrand Russell
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his
father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his
father’s care.
- William Penn
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him
Dad!
- Author Unknown
Fathers are biological necessities, but social
accidents.
- Margaret Mead
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
If the new American father feels bewildered and even
defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does
in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being
right.
- Bill Cosby
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin
unprotected.
- Red Buttons
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine
marriage and a career.
- Sam Ewing
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
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
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate
or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could
see the paradox, they would understand the
dilemma.
- Marlene Dietrich
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was
right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s
wrong.
- Charles Wadsworth quotes
It is a wise father that knows his own
child.
- William Shakespeare
It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an
unusual one that unreservedly approves of
him.
- Mark Twain
A father is a banker provided by
nature.
- Anonymous
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the
richest inheritance.
- Ruth E. Renkel
A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look
like his father.
- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every
funeral, the bride at every wedding, and the baby at every
christening.
- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not
a hundred sons one father.
- George Herbert
It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I
remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
A father’s words are like a thermostat that sets the
temperature in the house.
- Paul Lewis
Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be
very rough.
- Wilhelm Busch
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I
could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be
21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven
years.
- Mark Twain