Fathers Quotes

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself. - John Gregory Brown, (Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery)

I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started. -- Bartrand Hubbard

Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table. - Psalms 128:3

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

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty as the son who neglects them. - Confucius

It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all. - Alice Walker

And, ye fathers - provoke not your children to wrath: but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. - Ephesians 6:4

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons. -- Croesus

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. - James Baldwin