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

“One of the things I always believed in was my dad came to America and he was a very talented musician, but he couldn't make a living that way so he had to support his family as an auto mechanic which he also loved doing. He was also such a great dad because when I first told him I thought I wanted to go into show business, his response was okay, that's interesting.”

“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.”

“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.”

“The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.”

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

“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.”

“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”

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

“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.”

“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“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.”

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

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

“If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.”

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

“Your kids don’t need more things. They need you. And they want you. The more time that you can spend with them, the more they are going to want to be like you and know the Heavenly Father who made you such a great dad. That’s how you lead your kids to Christ.”