Lincoln Steffens Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• My father seemed always to know not only what I was doing, but what I was being.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Knows

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• My father made with me one serious mistake which I see parents about me making. He got himself somehow into the awkward position of an authority; I thought he knew and was right on everything - for a while.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Mistake, Parent

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Mother, Father, Light

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• My father, the practical joker, did not care for practical jokes on himself; he did not encourage the practice in me.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Practice, Care

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• I hunted far enough to suspect that the Fathers of the Republic who wrote our Sacred Constitution of the United States not only did not, but did not want to, establish a democratic government.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Government, Constitution Of The United States

  Lincoln Steffens (1931). “The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens”, p.125, Heyday

• I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Boys, Likes

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• My father would invite me sweetly to come and sit on a stool at his feet, and, as I let myself trustingly down, he would gently kick the seat from under me - and laugh.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Feet, Laughing

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• One improvement I have learned from my childhood experience with my father: I do not threaten punishment in the morning. That was awful. Late into the night I would lie awake tossing and wondering what he was going to do to me. Usually he did nothing. A quiet, impressive 'talking to' was all I got.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Morning, Father, Lying

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Mother, Father, Games

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

• If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

  Lincoln Steffens

  Father, Son, Watches

  Lincoln Steffens (1962). “The World of Lincoln Steffens”

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