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A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
Sep 24, 2025
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Never love anything that can't love you back.
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
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.
Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.
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.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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.'
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
It is a wise father that knows his own child.