My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
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.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.
My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby.
My Father... He was there when I didn't understand, he was there when I was wrong, he was there when I cried, he was there when I lied. For some reason my dad was always there, when I needed him the most. His love was never ending. And now that he's gone there is an emptiness in my world, but not in my heart.
Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
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.
To her, the name of father was another name for love.
My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne.
I am an obsessive garage cleaner - my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when I'm out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad!
You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.
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