Celebrating Fathers

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or because they didn’t. ~~~ L.L. Henderson

Celebrating Fathers

The best thing a father can do for a son is give him forty pounds and throw him out the door. ~~~ W. Somerset Maugham

Celebrating Fathers

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

Celebrating Fathers

Directly after God in Heaven comes Papa. ~~~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Celebrating Fathers

My earliest recollections are of being dressed up and allowed to come down to dance for a group of gentlemen who applauded and laughed as I pirouetted before them. Finally, my father would pick me up and hold me high in the air. He dominated my life as long as he lived, and was the love of my life for many years after he died. ~~~ Eleanor Roosevelt

Celebrating Fathers

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I’m much more interested to know what his grandson will be. ~~~ Abraham Lincoln

Celebrating Fathers

Live so that your son, when people tell him that he reminds them of you, will stick out his chest, not his tongue. ~~~ The Furrow

Celebrating Fathers

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men charity. ~~~ Francis Maitland Balfour

Celebrating Fathers

My father used to say, “Let them see you not the suit. That should be secondary.” ~~~ Cary Grant

Celebrating Fathers

Happy that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief.

Euridides

Celebrating Fathers

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father’s religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

Celebrating Fathers

I was never more pleased with my son than on the day he saw a John Wayne western on TV and told me I could have handled those rustlers just as well. ~~~ Evan McNaughton

Celebrating Fathers

A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather.

Angie Papadakis

Celebrating Fathers

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

John Locke

Celebrating Fathers

To bring up a child in a way he should go, travel thatyou’re yourself once in a while.

Josh Billings