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  • 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 (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

  • I try to do everything from the viewpoint of what's best for my kids. I have three kids and two great dads and it's not always easy, but you have to try to be a little selfless and we manage just fine.

    Dad   Kids   Two  
  • I was lucky to have a great dad.

    Dad   Lucky   Great Dad  
  • Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

    William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.307
  • It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.

  • My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

  • 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.

    Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.121, Courier Corporation
  • As for my personal life, I'd love to start a family of my own. I think I'd make a great dad, and I think shortly I would make a great husband.

    Husband   Dad   Thinking  
  • Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  • Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.

    Tom Wolfe (2002). “The Bonfire of the Vanities: A Novel”, p.446, Macmillan
  • You know not having my real dad around and having a step dad made me want to be a great dad. So now I have been one for 9 years. And now 3 daughters. So, that is what I am - a dad, first and foremost, before anything else. It's just something that comes natural now.

    Daughter   Mother   Dad  
    Interview with David Bruce, www.hollywoodjesus.com. May 28, 2005.
  • It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

    "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.
  • One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

    George Herbert (1836). “The works of George Herbert. containing Parentalia, the 2nd copy wanting the 1st sheet of vol.2].”, p.168
  • My dad has always been such a great dad, and he's brought so much culture to my life. He dragged me to see every single movie at the cinématheque as a kid. I saw everything from Star Wars to Bergman.

    Stars   Dad   War  
    "Julie Delpy's Entropic Vacation". Interview with Drew Fortune, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 9, 2012.
  • 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.

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

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
  • My dad was a great dad.

    Dad   Great Dad   My Dad  
    "Teenage flicks" by William Shaw, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2002.
  • Having a great dad probably permitted me to pal around with guys in a way that some women don't.

    Dad   Guy   Pals  
  • 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.

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
  • Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

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

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

    Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1961). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”
  • I had a great dad and we had a great relationship, but he's still a part of my life.

  • 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.

    "Denis Leary Wants David Bowie & Steven Tyler In ‘Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll’ Season 2 – Comic Con". Interview with Dominic Patten, deadline.com. July 12, 2015.
  • 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.

    Family   Dad   Children  
    Jean Paul (1866). “Levana: or, The doctrine of education”, p.17
  • I love being a dad, and I'm a great dad.

    Dad   Love Is   Great Dad  
  • 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.

    1984 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address, delivered 16 July 1984, San Francisco, CA
  • 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.

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
    Ernest Hemingway (2008). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, Ecco
  • Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

    Dad   Father   People  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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