Fathers

Famous quotes containing the word fathers:

    The fathers have eaten sour grapes, and the children’s teeth are set on edge.
    —Bible: Hebrew Ezekiel 18:2.

    Proverb, God’s reproach concerning the land of Israel.

    Fathers are still considered the most important “doers” in our culture, and in most families they are that. Girls see them as the family authorities on careers, and so fathers’ encouragement and counsel is important to them. When fathers don’t take their daughters’ achievements and plans seriously, girls sometimes have trouble taking themselves seriously.
    Stella Chess (20th century)

    Even if society dictates that men and women should behave in certain ways, it is fathers and mothers who teach those ways to children—not just in the words they say, but in the lives they lead.
    Augustus Y. Napier (20th century)