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.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
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.
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.
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.
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
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.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
I just owe almost everything to my father and it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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.
And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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