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

“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.”

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

“I love my dad. He used to walk around the whole neighborhood and collect old furniture and fix it, like MacGyver with duct tape. One time, he brought a television home. I said, 'Damn, that TV has 500 channels.' When I got older, it didn't have 500 channels - it was a knob from the oven. My favorite channel was 300 degrees.”

“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.”

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

“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”

“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.”

“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.”

“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!”

“To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.”