Father Quotes

"By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys." Douglas MacArthur

"Fifty years old: I'd give anything if Dad were here now so I could talk this over with him. Too bad I didn't appreciate how smart he was. I could have learned a lot from him." Author Unknown, from My Father

"To support mother and father, to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood; this is the good luck." Buddha

"To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter." Euripides

"Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad." Proverb

"My father taught me that one of the most important abilities in life is to be able to take the pain and persevere, and for years this lesson had served me well." Yanni

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

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
William Shakespeare

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." English Proverb

"It is much easier to become a father than to be one." Kent Nerburn

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one." Friedrich Nietzsche

"My father once said, 'If the whole world wants to go left and you feel like going right, go right. You don't have to follow. You don't have to make a big deal about which way you're going. Just go. It's very easy'."
Yanni

"I was fourteen when my father died. I missed everything about him. He taught us that we shouldn't be people of success; we should be people of values, because that was the only thing that endured."
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"
Lydia M. Child

"There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
Victor Hugo

"My dad has always taught me these words: care and share. That's why we put on clinics. The only thing I can do is try to give back."
Tiger Woods

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
Anne Sexton

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

"You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together."
Erika Cosby

"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
Pope John XXIII

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
Author Unknown

"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
Mark Twain

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
Jim Valvano

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope."
Bill Cosby

"It is a wise father that know his own child."
William Shakespeare

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