Fathers Quotes

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. -  Johann Schiller

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing. – Aldous Huxley (English Novelist & Critic, 1894-1963)

A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. - Proverbs 10:1

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honour or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. - Clarence Budington Kelland

Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it.  - Proverbs 22:6

Two little girls, on their way home from Sunday school, were solemnly discussing the lesson. "Do you believe there is a devil?" asked one. "No," said the other promptly. "It's like Santa Claus: it's your father." - Ladies' Home Journal (quoted in 2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs by Edward F. Murphy)

Every father should remember that one day his son will follow his example instead of his advice. – Anonymous

My father was often angry when I was most like him. – Lillian Hellman (American Playwright, 1905-1984)

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

A Dad is someone you never outgrow your need for. - Unknown