13 Quotes About Fathers

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

God is the archetypal Father; all other fatherhood is a more or less imperfect copy of his perfect fatherhood. The New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology

Any man who declares children to be born perfect never was a father. Your child without evil? You without eyes, you mean!

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.

A father's responsibility is not to make the child's decisions, but to let the child watch him make his.

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.

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

I say to all fathers--be as good as you can be--because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps.

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 the old man had learned in seven years.

My son is my son till he have got him a wife, But my daughter's my daughter all the days of her life.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

God strikes not as an enemy, to destroy; but as a father, to correct.