FATHERHOOD QUOTES:
“When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son.” — The Talmud
“By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am also prouder, infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.” — General Douglas MacArthur
“Every father should remember one day his son will follow his example, not his advice.” — Charles Kettering
“My father didn’t tell me how to live. He lived and let me watch him do it.” — Clarence Budington Kelland
“It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.” — Frederick Douglass
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.” — Umberto Eco
“When my son looks up at me and breaks into his wonderful toothless smile, my eyes fill up and I know that having him is the best thing I will ever do.” — Dan Greenberg
“I cannot think of any need in children as strong as the need for a father’s protection.” — Sigmund Freud
“Fathers, you are your daughter’s hero. — Elaine S. Dalton
“The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you’re unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.” — John Green
“A girl’s father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.” — David Jeremiah
“Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow.” — Reed Markham
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, storytellers, and singers of song.” — Pam Brown
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” — Billy Graham
