The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.
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.'
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.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
We never know the love of the parent for the child till we become parents.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
To her, the name of father was another name for love.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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