Fathers Quotes

I've learned that a father's blessing can fill a son's soul to the brim.
- Kelly Tobey

Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fire blazes. No one ever thanked him. - Robert Hayden

Sometimes you struggle so hard to feed your family one way you forget to feed them the other way, with spiritual nourishment. Every body needs that. – James Brown

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition; but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express. - Joseph Addison

My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down. - Donny Osmond

If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with you as with sons; for what son is he whom the father chasteneth not? – Hebrews 12:7

Every father expects his boy to do the things he wouldn't do when he was young. - Kin Hubbard

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. - Pete Rose

My father had always said there are four things a child needs: plenty of love, nourishing food, regular sleep, and lots of soap and water. After that, what he needs most is some intelligent neglect.  - Ivy Baker Priest

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage. - Barbara Kingsolver