"A
father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a
woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold
"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for
father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed
knowing them all." -- Alice Walker
"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a
Father who has not his equal in this world-so great, so good, so
faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be
discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am
sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and
you will have acquired a great deal." -- Victoria, Queen of
England
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the
provider for all, and the enemy of all." -- J. August Strindberg
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." -- William
Shakespeare
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he
was." -- Anne Sexton
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English
Proverb
"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." -- Ernest
Hemingway
"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like
his father." -- Gabriel García Márquez
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a
father's protection." -- Sigmund Freud
"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen
and sixteen 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." -- Mario Cuomo
"Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee
so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy
tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee."
-- Margaret
Courtney
"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." -- Bill
Cosby
"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him
father!" -- Lydia M. Child