Fathers Quotes

A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Unknown

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

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. - Natasha Josefowitz

Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much. - Unknown

A wise son maketh a glad father. - Proverbs 10:1

My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. - Abraham Lincoln

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him. - Laurence Rockefeller

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother. - Friedrich Nietzche

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

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference. - Alan Valentine