Quotes on Great 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.

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.'

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

Therefore, I do not wish to consider any proposition to cede any portion of our tribal holdings to the Great Father.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

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

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.

We were told that they wished merely to pass through our country. . . to seek for gold in the far west . . . Yet before the ashes of the council are cold, the Great Father is building his forts among us. . . . His presence here is . . . an insult to the spirits of our ancestors. Are we then to give up their sacred graves to be allowed for corn?

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

Look at me. I was a warrior on this land where the sun rises, now I come from where the sun sets. Whose voice was first surrounded on this land - the red people with bows and arrows. The Great Father says he is good and kind to us. I can't see it.

This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.

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

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.

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

Wherever you find a great man, you will find a great mother or a great wife standing behind him -- or so they used to say. It would be interesting to know how many great women have had great fathers and husbands behind them.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

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.