FATHERS

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius

A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Proverb

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said ''Box about: twill come to my father anon.''
John Aubrey

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Jewish Proverb

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.
Alexander Pope

A father is a banker provided by nature.
French Proverbs

The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadworth

Noble fathers have noble children.
Euripides

If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven give good things to them that ask him? Matthew 7:11
BIBLE

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James Baldwin

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
Anonymous

A father is a guy who has snapshots where his money sued to be.
Anonymous

Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
Anonymous

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
Croesus

His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.
John Marquand

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God, and I call him Dad!
Anonymous

A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be.
Anonymous

A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
Anonymous

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

The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.
Benjamin Franklin

Fathers do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord. [Ephesians 6:4]
Bible

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
Mary Mapes Dodge

When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.
Helen Hayes

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
Queen Victoria

A wise son maketh a glad father Proverbs 10:1
BIBLE

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.
Phyllis Mcginley

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

One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Source Unknown

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
David Gottesman

None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.
Queen Victoria of England

Call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, which is in heaven.
Bible

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
George Bernard Shaw

An unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance!
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. Ephesians 6:4
BIBLE

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child

Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.
National Urban League Slogan

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

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Erika Cosby

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
Erika Cosby

Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, Who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, And joined in thy innocent glee.
Margaret Courtney

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. The Bonfire of the Vanities
Tom Wolfe

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.
Carol Coats

My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.
Josefowitz

To her the name of father was another name for love.
Fanny Fern