Fathers Quotes

A father is a source of strength, a teacher & a guide, the one his family looks up to with loving trust and pride. . . A father is a helper with a willing hand to lend, a partner, an advisor, and the finest kind of friend. A Father means so many things... an understanding heart, a source of strength and of support right from the very start - a constant readiness to help in a kind and thoughtful way, with encouragement and forgiveness no matter what comes your way. A special generosity and always affection, too - a father means so many things when he's a man like you. - Unknown

Come mothers and fathers throughout the land, and don't criticize what you can't understand - Bob Dylan (American folksinger, b.1941)

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers. – Homer

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

If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time. - Russell Hoban

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. - Euripedes

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

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. - Robert Frost

Father asked us, ‘What was God's noblest work?’ Anna said, ‘men’, but I said, ‘babies’. Men are often bad, but babies never are. - Louisa May Alcott

Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did. – Anonymous