• "A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."

• "A father is a banker...
provided by nature."

• "A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."

• "The footsteps a child follows are most likely to be the ones his parents thought they had covered up."

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

• One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.

• "My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it."
-Abraham Lincoln

• "By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
-Charles Wadsworth

• "An effective father devotes himself to become an instrument and model of human experience to his children...accepts and affirms his children for who they are, appreciates them for what they are accomplishing, and covers them with affection because they are his."
-Gordon MacDonald

• "A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother."
-Solomon-10:1 NKJV

• "A child who is allowed to be disrespectful of his parents will not have true respect for anyone."
-Billy Graham

• "Teach your child to hold his tongue, He'll learn fast enough to speak."
-Franklin

• "If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're
not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father
will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did."
-Elisabeth Elliot

• "Fathers are what give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...
so they can have grandchildren that are smarter than anybody's."
-Paul Harvey

• "The most effective guard against delinquency is a father who is at the same time both strict and loving."
-Sheldon Glueck

• "To be in your children's memories tomorrow, you have to be in their lives today."
-Barbara Johnson

• "Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery."
-Vance Havner

• "When you teach your son, you teach your son's son."
-The Talmud

• It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
- Pope John XXIII

• "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!"
-Lydia M. Child

• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-George Herbert

• Any fool can be a Father, but it takes a real man to be a Daddy!!
-Philip Whitmore Snr

• Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world.
-John Mayor

• Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
-Bill Cosby

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

• It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.
-Johann Schiller

• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
-Aldous Huxley

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

• He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
-William Penn

• My father was a statesman,
I'm a political woman.
My father was a saint. I'm not.
-Indira Gandhi

• "Be kind to thy father,
for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee."
-Margaret Courtney