father quotes

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.


He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. 


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


Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name. 


Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. 


One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. 

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! 

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it. 


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

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. 

A father carries pictures where his money used to be. 


The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. 


My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.


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


The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering-galleries, they are clearly heard at the end and by posterity.