1.
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person; he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
10 Meaningful Quotes About Dads
2.
“‘There’s no shame in fear,’ my father told me, ‘what matters is how we face it.‘”
George R.R. Martin
3.
“My father didn’t tell me how to live;
he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
4.
“Learn something well so you can always make a living.”
Sherwood Anderson, in a letter to his son, John
5.
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you’ve been mean to someone, they won’t believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it’s time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
Laurell K. Hamilton
6.
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren’t trying to teach us.”
Umberto Eco
7.
“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.”
Jodi Picoult
8.
“I gave my father $100 and said, ‘Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.’ So he went out and bought a present for my mother.”
Rita Rudner
9.
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
