Fathers are a voice of wisdom.
- 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
- Fathers represent another way of looking at life – the possibility of an alternative dialogue. ~Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978
- 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. ~Author unknown, commonly attributed to Mark Twain
Fathers are examples for youth
- He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. ~Clarence Budington Kelland
- I love my father as the stars – he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~Terri Guillemets
Fathers inspire youth to greatness.
- Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ~Joseph Joubert
- 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. ~Jean Paul Richter
A Father’s true wealth is found in his children.
- A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. ~Author Unknown
- Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. ~Ruth E. Renkel
- A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~Author Unknown
- Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~Bill Cosby
Fathers are a gift from God
- The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad! ~Author Unknown