One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
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.'
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
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 be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
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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