The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
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.
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
Never love anything that can't love you back.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
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.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
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