FATHER’S DAY QUOTES
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland, American writer (1881-1964), about his father
“My father will leave me nothing to do.”
–A young Alexander the Great, future king of Macedonia
(356-323 B.C.)
“A father is a treasure; a brother, a comfort; a friend is both.”
–Benjamin Franklin, American statesman (1706-1790)
“His heritage to his children wasn’t words or possessions, but an unspoken treasure, the treasure of his example as a man and a father.”
–Will Rogers, Jr. (1879–1935)
“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 (1835–1910)