It is a wise father that knows his own child. -
William Shakespeare
It is not flesh and blood but the heart, which makes us fathers and
sons. - Johann Schiller
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and
fathering is a very important stage in their development. - David
Gottesman
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
- Lydia M. Child
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. - Kent Nerburn
By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact.
But I am prouder - infinitely prouder - to be a father. A soldier
destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The
one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life.
And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are
mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember
me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our
simple daily prayer, 'Our Father who art in Heaven.' - Douglas
Macarthur
One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear God, Make me the kind
of man my Daddy is. Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear God, Make
me the kind of man my son wants me to be. - Anonymous
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. - George Herbert
Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so
fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and
joined in thy innocent glee. - Margaret Courtney
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
The greatest gift I ever received come from God, I call him Dad! -
Anonymous
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was
astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. - Mark Twain
My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens
to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but
it makes me feel better to half believe it. - Josefowitz
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually
has a son who thinks he's wrong. - Charles Wadsworth
I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the
hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I
started. - Bartrand Hubbard
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what
my father taught by example in one week. - Mario Cuomo
