"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
"A wise son maketh a glad father..." ~ Proverbs 10:1
"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." ~ Sigmund Freud
"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~ David O. McKay
"There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." ~ Author Unknown
"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." ~ Bill Cosby
"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 he had learned in seven years." ~ Mark Twain
"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." ~ Enid Bagnold
"Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." ~ Ruth E. Renkel
"A father carries pictures where his money used to be." ~ Author Unknown
"That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all." ~ J. August Strindberg
"It is a wise father that knows his own child." ~ William Shakespeare
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." ~ Anne Sexton
"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." ~ Ernest Hemingway
"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." ~ Unknown
"It is much easier to become a father than to be one." ~ Kent Nerburn
