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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.”

“I feel like that's a way people can change the way music is - to be guided by someone they believe in and trust. Larson and I really believed in each other. It was like brother/sister, father/daughter, we were laughing and yelling, that's how it is when you make an album! Essentially the trust was there and I got something great.”

“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”

“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.”

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

“It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.”

“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”

“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

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

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

“If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.”

“Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.”

“The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock - full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat - like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I took such months to get.”

“Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.”

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”

“There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”

“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.”

“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”

“A daughter is the happy memories of the past, the joyful moments of the present, and the hope and promise of the future.”

“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.”