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Day
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Father-Quote-of-the-Day
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| 1 |
Mothers are fonder than fathers
of
their children because they are more certain they are their own.
-- Aristotle
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| 2 |
The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary
man is to have an extraordinary father.
--O'Malley Austin
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| 3 |
The most important thing a father
can
do for his children is to love their mother.
--Henry Ward Beecher
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| 4 |
When a father, absent
during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament,
not his teaching.
--Robert Bly
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| 5 |
Manual labor to my father was
not only good and decent for its own sake, but as he was given to saying,
it straightened out one's thoughts.
--Mary Ellen Chase
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| 6 |
The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father
goes
forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to
us by our children.
--Nancy Friday
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| 7 |
Americans are like a rich father
who
wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.
--Robert Frost
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| 8 |
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman.
My father was a saint. I'm not.
--Indira Gandhi
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| 9 |
My grandfather once
told me that there were two kinds of people: those who do the work and
those who take the credit. He told me to try to be in the first group;
there was much less competition.
--Indira Gandhi
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| 10 |
What you have inherited from your father,
you must earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.
--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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| 11 |
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
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| 12 |
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason
than that our fathers have done them or our
neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect
of what we think.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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| 13 |
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
-- Homer
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| 14 |
Fishing is much more than fish . . . It is the great
occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.
--Herbert Hoover
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| 15 |
My father taught me
to work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and
I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh
- anything but work.
--Abraham Lincoln
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| 16 |
There are 3 stages in a man's life: 'My Daddy can
whip you Daddy.' 'Aw, Dad, you don't know anything.' 'My father
used
to say . . .'.
--Dwight McSmith
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| 17 |
It now costs more to amuse a child than it once did
to educate his father.
--Vaughan Monroe
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| 18 |
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father
and
mother rather than all major credit cards.
--Robert Orben
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| 19 |
Success has many fathers,
failure is a mother.
--Jeanne Phillips
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| 20 |
It is easier for a father to
have children than for children to have a real father.
-- Pope John XXIII
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| 21 |
You've got to do your own growing, no matter how
tall your grandfather was.
--Irish Proverb
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| 22 |
My father gave me these
hints on speech-making: "Be sincere . . . be brief . . . be seated."
--James Roosevelt
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| 23 |
It doesn't matter who my father
was;
it matters who I remember he was.
--Anne Sexton
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| 24 |
It is a wise father that
knows his own child.
--William Shakespeare
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| 25 |
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
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| 26 |
In the creative process there is the father,
the author of the play; the mother, the actor pregnant with the part; and
the child, the role to be born.
--Konstantin Stanislavsky
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| 27 |
It's clear that most American children suffer too
much mother and too little father.
--Gloria Steinem
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| 28 |
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.
--Mark Twain
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| 29 |
A father decided to
tell his young son the facts of life and was stumped right away by the
boy's first question: 'How many are there?'
-- Unknown
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| 30 |
Education is something you get when your father
sends
you to college. But it isn't complete until you send your son there.
-- Unknown
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| 31 |
Fathers should be neither
seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.
--Oscar Wilde
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