Quotes About Family

I grew up in Minnesota. Four generations of my father's people are buried there.

A man doesn't need to be flawless to be a perfect father, but the commitment to his family is a precious responsibility.

...Being a father is the most exciting, amazing thing that ever happened to me.

Everyday I see a little more of my father in me.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Orphans are the only ones who get to choose their fathers, and they love them twice as much.

Interactions between fathers and children are the starting point of education.

Being a father, well, I don't know if this is a change, but it makes me want to get out of here faster. Get off the clock. Just 'cause the baby is my reason for living, my reason for coming to work.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

Our children give us the opportunity to become the parents we always wished we'd had.

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

How easily a fathers tenderness is recalled, and how quickly a son's offenses vanish at the slightest word of repentance!

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Son, you outgrew my lap, but never my heart.

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

I'm much more proud of being a father than being an actor.

I felt something impossible for me to explain in words. Then, when they took her away, it hit me. I got scared all over again and began to feel giddy. Then it came to me... I was a father.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

The water's murmur is the voice of my father's father.