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  • A woman is never so happy as when she is being wooed. Then she is mistress of all she surveys, the cynosure of all eyes, until that day of days when she sails down the aisle, a vision in white, lovely as the stefanotis she carries, borne translucent on her father's manly arm to be handed over to her new father-surrogate. If she is clever, and if her husband has the time and the resources, she will insist on being wooed all her life; more likely she will discover that marriage is not romantic, that husbands forget birthdays and aniversaries and seldom pay compliments, are often perfunctory.

  • My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.

  • 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.

  • Never love anything that can't love you back.

  • I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

    TIME magazine, November 11, 1996.
  • My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

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

  • 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
  • Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now.

    Father   Night   Men  
  • 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  
  • More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story.

  • After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place.

    Father   Kids   Boys  
  • 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!

  • It was my father who taught me to value myself.

  • There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.

    James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.494
  • When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

    Fathers Day   Dad   Son  
  • There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.

    John Gregory Brown (2001). “Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery”, p.68, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
  • When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."

  • New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language.

  • Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

    Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.185, Open Road Media
  • I've never protected the president [in real life], but I have been a new dad, and I can tell you that being a new dad is pretty terrifying. I'm pretty sure that something about the president makes the stakes a little higher, but to me as a new father, nothing is more important or scary than protecting a daughter.

    Daughter   Dad   Real  
  • A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

  • Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.

  • Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles.

    Father   Winning   Ideas  
  • [CNN, USA Today] they've got 24 hours to fill. You know, how many times can Anna Nicole Smith's baby get a new father?

    Baby   Father   Usa  
    Source: www.truth-out.org
  • To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.

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