Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
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.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.
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