It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
George Herbert
Father! -- to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
William Wordsworth
He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Clarence Budington Kelland
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
Pope John XXIII
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.
Jim Valvano
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.
Charles Wadsworth
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.
Umberto Eco
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
Harmon Killebrew
I'm a full-time dad. I'm a working parent. I'm a mother and a father. I'm a guy who reads parenting books and cookbooks before I go to sleep. I spend my weekends buying tutus. I'm learning to sew.
Graham
When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain