Quotes about Fathers

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"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."
- Enid Bagnold

"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

"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 talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
- Mario Cuomo

"The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat."
- Robert Frost

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

"A father is a banker provided by nature."
- French Proverb

"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

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
- George Herbert

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

"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

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
- Clarence Budington Kelland

"When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'"
- Jerry Lewis

"I don't know why my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
- Abraham Lincoln

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

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

"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
- Robert Orben

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

"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a Father who has not his equal in this world - so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal."
- Queen Victoria of England

"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance."
- Ruth E. Renkel

"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

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

"It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love."
- Margaret Truman

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

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

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

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."
- Unknown

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
- Charles Wadsworth