FATHERS

See also: Children; Families; Mothers; Parenting; Wives

“Honor your father and your mother …”

The Bible, Exodus 20:12

Fathers, do not exasperate your children; instead, bring them up in the training and instruction of the Lord.

The Bible, Ephesians 6:4

Father, do not embitter your children …

The Bible, Colossians 3:21

I wish I were half as great as my infant thinks I am, and only half as stupid as my teenager thinks I am.

Author unknown

By the time a son realizes his father is usually right, he has a son who thinks his father is usually wrong.

Author unknown

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

Robert Bly

We need to restore fatherhood to its rightful place of honor.

James Dobson and Gary L. Bauer

It may be hard on some fathers not to have a son, but it is much harder on a boy not to have a father.

Sara D. Gilbert

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Pope John XXIII

He that will have his son have respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.

John Locke

The more a child becomes aware of a father’s willingness to listen, the more a father will begin to hear.

Gordon MacDonald

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

Proverb

What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

Jean Paul Richter

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Gloria Steinem

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

P. Syrus

A child tells in the street what its father says at home.

The Talmud

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

Jim Valvano