Famous fathers quotations

   Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.  Nice Word by Cindy Garner

   It is much easier to become a father than to be one.  Meaningful Quotation by Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994

Inspirational Sayings, Motivational Quotes, Great Words, Witty Proverbs
   Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.  Good Quote by Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978

   Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  Wise Phrase by William Wordsworth

   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.  Wise Phrase by Mark Twain, Old Times on the Mississippi Atlantic Monthly, 1874

   There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

   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.  Nice Word by John Gregory Brown, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

   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.  Meaningful Quotation by Clarence Budington Kelland

   Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. Do you believe there is a devil? asked one. No, said the other promptly. It's like Santa Claus: it's your father.  Good Quote by Ladies' Home Journal, quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edwa

   The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.  Wise Phrase by Angelo Patri

   Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.  Wise Phrase by Joseph Joubert

   Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

   He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  Nice Word by Clarence Budington Kelland

   A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.  Meaningful Quotation by Author Unknown

   Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.  Good Quote by Ruth E. Renkel

   Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.  Wise Phrase by Bill Cosby

   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.  Wise Phrase by Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities

   The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.  Famous Saying by Jean Paul Richter

   Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.  Nice Word by Victoria Secunda, Women and Their Fathers, 1992

   A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.  Meaningful Quotation by Enid Bagnold

   Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!  Good Quote by Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836

   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.  Wise Phrase by Harmon Killebrew

   One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  Wise Phrase by George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640

   A father carries pictures where his money used to be.  Famous Saying by Author Unknown

   My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.  Nice Word by Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



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