“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Source: The standard edition of the complete psychological works of Sigmund Freud
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“You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.”
Source: Robert Frost on writing
“Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.”
“Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.”
Source: The Good Life According to Hemingway
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
Source: The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].
“One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.”
Source: The Works of George Herbert ... Edited by the Rev. Robert Aris Willmott, etc
“Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.”
Source: The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.”
“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
Source: Complete Essays: 1920-1925
Source: Iacocca: An Autobiography
“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.”
“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.”
Source: Mama Day: A Novel
Source: 2500 jokes to start 'em laughing
“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.”
“Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.”
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
“I think my mom put it best. She said, 'Little girls soften their daddy's hearts.'”
Source: Foucault's Pendulum
“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.”
“I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.”
Source: Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
Source: Lord Chesterfield's Letters
“He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.”
“Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.”