Fathers Quotes

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so. - Pam Brown

The best thing I ever saw was a man who loved his wife. – Paul McCartney

Because children see parents as authority figures and gods, they think that the way you treat them is the way they deserve to be treated: ‘What you say about me is what I am’ is a literal truth to your child. Consequently, when children are treated with respect, they conclude that they deserve respect and hence develop self-respect. - Stephanie Marston

If there is anything we wish to change in our children, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Carl G. Jung

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been. - Laurence Steinberg and Ann Levine

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence. - Samuel Johnson

It is admirable for a man to take his son fishing, but there is a special place in heaven for the father who takes his daughter shopping. - John Sinor

Men learn while they teach. - Seneca

Of course my father was a great influence on me. He taught me how to read. - Michael Foot