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.

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it’s own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one’s thoughts.

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

What you have inherited from your father, you must earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

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

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.

No father should have to bury their child.

If it were natural for father to care for their sons, they would not need so many laws commanding them to do so.

My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

A bad father has never a good son.

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

Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace. In peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons.

A father is a banker provided by nature.