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A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.
Unknown |
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano |
What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.
Jean Paul Richter |
A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.
Marlene Dietrich |
Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.
Ruth E. Renkel |
I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.
Homer Simpson |
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
English Proverb |
There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.
Richard L. Evans |
Becoming a father isn't difficult, But it's very difficult to be a father.
Wilhelm Busch |
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland |
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Enid Bagnold |
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Theodore Hesburgh |
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
J. August Strindberg |
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Confucius |
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare |
My father was an amazing man. The older I got, the smarter he got.
Mark Twain |
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
Unknown |
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez |
It is a great moment in life when a father sees a son grow taller than he or reach farther.
Richard L. Evans |
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Kent Nerburn |
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
Margaret Turnbull |
Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren't through being children.
Cindy Garner |
Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.
Unknown |
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII |
The fundamental defect with fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
Bertrand Russell |
My father was often angry when I was most like him.
Lillian Hellman |
There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus.
Unknown |
A stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and DESERVES is a parent who is SPARKY.
Roald Dahl |
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.
Mark Twain |
Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.
Al Unser, Jr. |
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud |
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
Unknown |
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadworth |
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.
Umberto Eco |
Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Amy Heckerling |
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!
Lydia M. Child |
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton |
