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  • A man's worth is measured by how he parents his children. What he gives them, what he keeps away from them, the lessons he teaches and the lessons he allows them to learn on their own.

    Children   Father   Men  
  • In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

    Father   Years   Advice  
    Great Gatsby (1925) ch. 1
  • I grew during segregation in an all-black segregated neighborhood with segregated schools, etcetera. I was raised by a great father, my hero, who I much admired. So, I never really had anxiety in the way that someone like Obama would have. When he walks down the street alone, since no one knows who his mother is, they're just going to see him as a black guy.

    Mother   Father   Hero  
    "Shelby Steele: The Why Obama Can’t Win Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. February 27, 2008.
  • 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.

  • The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

    Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr
  • 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.

  • Roberto Clemente played the game of baseball with great passion. That passion could only be matched by his unrelenting commitment to make a difference in the lives of the less fortunate and those in need. People saw Roberto as a great ballplayer and humanitarian. He was also a great father, husband, teammate and friend.

  • We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

  • To her, the name of father was another name for love.

  • I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

    Time Magazine, June 02, 1986.
  • 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
  • You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

    Children   Dad   Father  
  • Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.

  • What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity.

  • You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

    Robert Frost, Elaine Barry (1973). “Robert Frost on writing”, Rutgers Univ Pr
  • 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
  • The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.

  • 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
  • The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

    Television interview by Edward R. Murrow, CBS, 27 May 1955
  • The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

  • My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

  • [I want to be remembered] as a great servant of God who tried to give back as much as possible, and as a great father and husband.

  • Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

    "The Great Gatsby". Book by F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1925.
  • 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.

  • It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.

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

    Funny   Fathers Day   Dad  
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