Fathers Quotes

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

Billy Graham

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

George Herbert

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”

Euripides

“Certain it is that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter.”

Joseph Addison

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”

Enid Bagnold

“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”

Frank A. Clark

“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

“Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.”

“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," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys."

Harmon Killebrew

“I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured.”

“My father wasn't perfect. But the thing that he taught my whole family was that family was the most important thing and, no matter what, if a family member needs you, you go and help them out; you get there.”

“I never had a speech from my father, "this is what you must do or shouldn't do," but I just learned to be led by example.”

“My comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.”