"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."
~
Bertrand Russell, philosopher/mathematician
"I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it."
~
Harry S. Truman, U.S. President
"I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood."
~ Homer Simpson/
Matt Groening, 'The Simpsons'
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."
~ Theodore Hesburgh, clergyman/university president
"The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but… they are clearly heard…by posterity."
~ Jean Paul Richter, writer
"When you teach your son, you teach your son's son"
~
The Talmud
"Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards."
~ Robert Orben, magician/writer
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
~
Anne Sexton, poet
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
~ English Proverb
"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, baseball player
"She got her good looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."
~
Groucho Marx, comedian
"It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping."
~ John Sinor, author
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
~
William Shakespeare, 'The Merchant of Venice'
"Wow, it's like I died and went to heaven, then God realized it wasn't my time yet, so He sent me back to a brewery."
~ Pete Griffan/Seth McFarlane, '
Family Guy'
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
~
Sigmund Freud, psychiatrist
"To be a successful father ... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
~
Ernest Hemingway, author
"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, former governor of NY
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope."
~
Bill Cosby, comedian
"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."
~ Kent Nerburn, theologian/author
"It is easier to govern a kingdom than to rule a family."
~ Chinese proverb
"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."
~
Knights of Pythagoras, mentoring network
"My father was often angry when I was most like him."
~
Lillian Hellman, playwright
"One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world."
~ Jewish Proverb
"Having a family is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain."
~ Martin Mull, actor
"The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family."
~
Lee Iacocca, automobile executive
"We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents."
~
Henry Ward Beecher, minister
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."
~
Pope John XXIII
"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
~ Jim Valvano, basketball coach
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
~ Charles Wadsworth, musician
"You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was."
~ Irish Proverb
"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."
~
Mother Teresa, nun
"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right."
~
Bill Cosby, comedian
"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, author
"No man on his death bed ever looked up into the eyes of his family and friends and said, "I wish I'd spent more time at the office."
~ Anon
"A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be."
~ Anon
"There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus."
~ Anon
"More boys would follow in their father's footsteps if they weren't afraid of being caught."
~ Anon
