Quotes on Being A Father

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It behooves a father to be blameless if he expects his child to be.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

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

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

Being a husband is for me as big a priority as being a father.

I have neither permitted, nor shall I permit, the things which have been settled by the holy fathers to be violated by any innovation.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.