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“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”

“My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”

“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”

“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.”

“Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.”

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe”

“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”

“There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.”

“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.”

“If your dad is anything like mine, then you have no clue what to buy him for Father's Day. The only Father's Day tradition in my family is the annual conversation he and I have where I say, 'Hey, Dad, what do you want for Father's Day this year?' and he says, 'Nothing.' Then I ask my mom what I should get him and she says, 'He likes sandalwood soap, dangly jewelry and Chanel No. 5 perfume.'”

“Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.”

“Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament. But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.”

“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”

“The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!”