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Quotes about fathers
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That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel? (Joseph Chief)
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. (Joseph Chief)
Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life. (Joseph Chief)
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless. (Joseph Chief)
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Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father! (Joseph Chief)
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them. (Joseph Chief)
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. (Joseph Chief)
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together. (Joseph Chief)
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee. (Joseph Chief)
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example. (Joseph Chief)
What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. (Joseph Chief)
Noble fathers have noble children. (Joseph Chief)
To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. (Joseph Chief)
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. (Joseph Chief)
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother. (Joseph Chief)
There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. (Joseph Chief)
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. (Joseph Chief)
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, Our Father Who Art in Heaven. (Joseph Chief)
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. (Joseph Chief)
When one has not had a good father, one must create one. (Joseph Chief)
Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children. (Joseph Chief)
A father is a banker provided by nature. (Joseph Chief)
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them. (Joseph Chief)
It is a wise father that knows his own child. (Joseph Chief)
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately (Joseph Chief)
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