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

“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”

“A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.”

“To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.”

“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”

“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.”

“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.”

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

“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”

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

“Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.”

“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.”

“It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.”

“As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.”

“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.”

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

“Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.”

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