Quote Lady's Quotes by Subject, Fathers

Fathers

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.--Bill Cosby
For it is impossible for a man to put forward fair and honest views about our affairs if he has not, like everyone else, children whose lives may be at stake.--Asphasia (from a speech given by Pericles which Asphasia wrote)
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.--Bertrand Russell (New York Times, June 9, 1963)
The hardest part of raising a child is teaching them to ride bicycles. A father can only ride beside the bicycle or stand yelling directions while the child falls. A shaky child on a bicycle for the first time needs both support and freedom.--Sloan Wilson (What Shall We Wear to This Party?)
He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures ... but he was never in them.--Erma Bombeck (Family--the Ties that Bind ... And Gag)
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
I was my father's daughter... I am many things besides, but I am daddy's girl too, and so I will remain - all the way to the old folk's home.--Paula Weideger
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.--Anne Sexton ("All God's Children Need Radios" in Ms.)
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.--Kent Nerburn (Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man)
It's clear that most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.--Gloria Steinem
Mama seemed to do only what my father wanted, and yet we lived the way my mother wanted us to live.--Lillian Hellman
Mender of toys, leader of boys
Changer of fuses, kisser of bruises,
Bless him, dear Lord.
Mover of couches, soother of ouches,
Pounder of nails, teller of tales,
Reward him, O Lord.
Hanger of screens, counselor of teens,
Fixer of bikes, chastiser of tykes,
Help him, O Lord.
Raker of leaves, cleaner of eaves,
Dryer of dishes, fulfiller of wishes ...
Bless him, O Lord.--Jo Ann Heidbreder
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.--Henry Ward Beecher
My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me many things as we went together along the country by-ways.--Sarah Orne Jewett (Country By-Ways)
My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.--Isobel Field (The Life I've Lived)
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.--Jim Valvano
My father instilled in me that if you don't see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.--Susan Powter
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but work.--Abraham Lincoln
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass." "We're not raising grass," my dad would reply, "we're raising boys."--Harmon Killebrew
My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.--Laurie Beth Jones (Grow Something Besides Old)
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, "You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to."--Jan Hutchins (on radio station KGO, San Francisco, 1988)
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular.--Robert Frost (Writers at Work)
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.--Irish Proverb