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.'
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
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.
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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
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.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
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