Father's Day

[H]ard as I try, daddy-o, I really do not like concert singers. They are always singing in some foreign language.

I have had prayers answered—most strangely so sometimes—but I think our heavenly Father’s lovingkindness has been even more evident in what He has refused me.

The father who raises a son to have a profession he once dreamed of, and the mother who uses her daughter as the adult companion her husband is not; the parents who urge their children into accomplishments as status symbols—all these and many more are ways of subordinating a child’s authentic self to a parent’s needs.

Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

A father is very miserable who has no other hold on his children’s affection than the need they have of his assistance, if that can be called affection.

There are some extraordinary fathers, who seenl, during the whole course of their lives, to be giving their children reasons for being consoled at their death.

If you and your child were going to be lulled tomorrow/would you not give him to eat today?

I perceive affection makes a fool / Of any man too much the father.

Deep in the cavern of the infant’s breast / The father’s nature lurks, and lives anew.

To an old father, nothing is more sweet / Than a daughter. Boys are more spirited, but their ways / Are not so tender.

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child’s board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither.

'Honour thy father and thy mother' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

My father taught me to work he did not teach me to love it.

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

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

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life.

The founding fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents.

Do not consider painful what is good for you. Euripides A sweet thing, for whatever time, to revisit in dreams the dear dad we have lost.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

All we have of freedom -- all we use or know --
This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago.

Thanksgiving Day is a day devoted by persons with inflammatory rheumatism to thanking a loving Father that it is not hydrophobia

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.