Quotes About Fatherhood
A Father’s Day celebration
Fatherhood is one of the most important jobs a man can have. He doesn’t apply for it, he doesn’t need a license or degree to get it, and yet he has more influence in this position than he will ever have when he’s wearing a suit and sitting in a boardroom. These quotes are about the importance of fatherhood — and how difficult that job can be.
1. “Victory has a hundred fathers but defeat is an orphan.”
-Galeazzo Ciano
2. “He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
-Clarence Budington Kelland
3. “In peace, sons bury their fathers; in war, fathers bury their sons.”
-Herodotus
4. “It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
-William Shakespeare
5. “It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.”
-Gertrude Stein
6. “Father of fathers, make me one,
A fit example for a son.”
-Douglas Malloch
