Quotes about FATHERS

• “A wise son maketh a glad father.” – Proverbs 10:1

• “I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”
  – Margaret Thatcher

• “By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
  – Charles Wadsworth

• “Fifth Commandment: Honor thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.” – Exodus 20:12

• “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” – George Herbert

• “My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.'” – Jim Fox

• “I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” – Sigmund Freud

• “Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad.” – Anne Geddes

• “Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
  – Robert Orben

• “My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland

• What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity. – Jean Paul Richter

• “A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season”.
  – Unknown

• No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, until he has a child and loves it. And
  then the whole universe changes and nothing will ever again seem exactly as it seemed before. – Lafcadio Hearn

• Fathers, don’t aggravate your children. If you do, they will become discouraged and quit trying.
  – Colossians 3:21

• Thank you for being interested. Doesn’t sound much—but it meant just about everything. – Pam Brown

• “That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
  – J. August Strindberg

• In the baby lies the future of the world. Mother must hold the baby close so that the baby knows it is his world but the father must take him to the highest hill so that he can see what his world is like. – Mayan Indian Proverb

• Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. – Pam Brown

• My son, obey your father’s commands, and don’t neglect your mother’s teaching. – Proverbs 6:20

• “My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.” – Louis Adamic

• “A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he’s in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.” – Bill Cosby

• “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 said, ‘Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'” – Dexter Scott King

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