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 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)
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
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 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 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've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was.--Irish Proverb