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.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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.'
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
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.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
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.
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.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
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