Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. – Ruth E. Renkel
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. – Bill Cosby
It’s only when you grow up and step back from him–or leave him for your own home–it’s only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. – Margaret Truman
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. – George Herbert
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.” – Harmon Killebrew
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. – Clarence Budington Kelland
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. – Author Unknown
Father! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name. – William Wordsworth
Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever. – Author Unknown
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
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. – Author Unknown
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. – Hedy Lamarr
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong. – Charles Wadworth
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne. – Hank Williams, Jr.
It doesn’t matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was. – Anne Sexton
