“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
Theodore M. Hesburgh
“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence B. Kelland
“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
“My father was a statesman, I’m a political woman. My father was a saint. I’m not.”
Indira Gandhi
“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
Jewish Proverb
“My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.”
King George V
“My father always used to say that when you die, if you’ve got five real friends, then you’ve had a great life.”
Lee Iacocca
“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
“Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.”
Joseph Joubert
“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
Erika Cosby
“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
Imelda Marcos
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
Pope John XXIII
“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!”
Lydia M. Child
“When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes,
Sir Stephen Spender
I was your son, high on your horse,
My mind a top whipped by the lashes
Of your rhetoric, windy of course.”
“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
“Father, whom I murdered every night but one,
Howard Moss, Elegy for My Father (l. 1-2)
That one, when your death murdered me.”
“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.”
Anonymous
“To her the name of father was another name for love.”
Fanny Fern
“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