Wise Thoughts on Fatherhood

Site Author — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 20:30:12 +0000

I don’t profess to be the world’s greatest father – heck, I don’t think I even come close. But I’ve learned a thing or two from someone who I feel has earned that distinction… my Dad. Something he told me when I was six still holds true for me today – “Those who say the most, do the least.” In that vein, here's my first contribution to “Dad’s Corner.”

Here are a few quotations about fatherhood that I have collected through the years:

“It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.” Anne Sexton

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” Anonymous

“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.” – Charles Wadsworth

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.” – Bill Cosby

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.” – Ruth E. Renkel

“The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Theodore M. Hesburgh

“My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence B. Kelland

“Noble fathers have noble children.” – Euripides

“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.” – Mark Twain

Submitted by Director Dad—father of one.

Dad's Corner

Wise Thoughts on Fatherhood