Quotes on fathers
Fathers represent another way of looking at life - the possibility of an alternative dialogue.
Kaplan, Louise J.
My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.
Porchia, Antonio
Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale.
Secunda, Victoria
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.
Brown, John Gregory
I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.
Radici, Adabella
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Cosby, Bill
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.
Herbert, George
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
Joubert, Joseph
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Renkel, Ruth E.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
Addison, Joseph
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
Wordsworth, William
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.
Richter, Jean Paul
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."
Killebrew, Harmon
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.
Twain, Mark
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.
Kelland, Clarence Budington
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Child, Lydia M.
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.
Wolfe, Thomas