"Fathers, be good to your daughters. You are the god and the weight of her world...!!!"
Poet: John Mayor...!!!
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection...!!!"
Poet: Sigmund Freud...!!!
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My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me."
Poet: Jim Valvano...!!!
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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.)
Poet: Harmon Killebrew...!!!
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"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...!!!"
Poet: Phyllis Diller...!!!
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"Small boy's definition of Father's Day: It's just like Mother's Day only you don't spend so much...!!!"
Poet: Haim...!!!
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"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them...!!!
Poet: Confucius...!!!
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"When a father gives to his son, both laugh, when a son gives to his father, both cry...!!!"
Poet: Jewish Proverb...!!!
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"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father...!!!"
Poet: Philothea: A Romance, 1836...!!!
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"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all...!!!"
Poet: J-August Strindberg...!!!
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"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father...!!!"
Poet: Gabriel Garcia Marquez...!!!
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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...!!!
Poet: Mark Twain...!!!
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One night a father overheard his son pray: Dear GOD, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is Later that night, the Father prayed, Dear GOD, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be.
Poet: Haim...!!!
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"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again....!!!"
Poet: Enid Bagnold...!!!
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"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection...!!!"
Poet: Sigmund Freud...!!!
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"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad....!!!"
Poet: Anne Geddes...!!!
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"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again...!!!"
Poet: Enid Bagnold...!!!
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My father always told me: "Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life...!!!"
Poet: Jim Fox...!!!
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"It is a wise father that knows his own child...!!!"
Poet: William Shakespeare...!!!
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"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap on a rope...!!!"
Poet: Bill Cosby...!!!
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"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship...!!!"
Poet: Wendell Phillips...!!!
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"There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence...!!!"
Poet: Samuel Johnson...!!!
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"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong...!!!"
Poet: Charles Wadsworth
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"My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me...!!!"
Poet: King George-v...!!!
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"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life...!!!"
Poet: Lee Iacocca...!!!
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