Fathers Quotes
A father is a banker provided by nature.~ French Proverb
A girl without a mother is like a mountain with no paths; a girl without a father is like a mountain with no streams.~ Kurdish Proverb
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A mother is gold, a father is a mirror.~ Nigerian Proverb
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!~ Lydia M. Child
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.~ Charles Wadworth
Clever father, clever daughter; clever mother, clever son.~ Russian Proverb
Don’t make a baby if you can’t be a father.~ National Urban League Slogan
Friendship reminds us of fathers, love of mothers.~ Malagasy Proverb
If a son is uneducated, his father is to blame.~ Chinese Proverb
In life the son is scornful of the father, in business the father is of the son.~ Peruvian Proverb
It is a wise father that knows his own child.~ William Shakespeare
Mean fathers, wasteful sons.~ French Proverb
My dear father! When I remember him, it is always with his arms open wide to love and comfort me.~ Isobel Field
My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.~ Clarence Buddinton Kelland
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.~ Jim Valvano
My fathers planted for me, and I planted for my children.~ Hebrew Proverb
My heart is happy, my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me.~ Hilde Bigelow
No music is so pleasant to my ears as that word father.~ Lydia M. Child
One father can feed seven children, but seven children cannot feed one father.~ Cameroonian Proverb
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.~ English Proverb
Tell me who your father is, and I’ll tell you who you are.~ Filipino Proverb
The child is the father of the man.~ William Wordsworth
The father a saint, the son a sinner.~ Spanish Proverb
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.~ Theodore M. Hesburgh
There’s no advice like father’s — even if you don’t take it.~ American Proverb
Three daughters and a mother are four devils for a father.~ Argentine Proverb
To her the name of father was another name for love.~ Fanny Fern
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.~ Jewish Proverb
When a father praises his son, he flatters himself.~ American Proverb
When you follow in the path of your father, you learn to walk like him.~ Ghanaian Proverb
You can buy everything, except a father and a mother.~ Tamil Proverb
You cannot satisfy the whole world and your father.~ French Proverb
You only appreciate your father the day you become a father yourself.~ Iranian Proverb
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