The child is father of the man.
Rich men’s sons are seldom rich men’s fathers.
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
Feels good to try, but playing a father, I’m getting a little older. I see now that I’m taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle.
My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.
One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
Child-rearing is my main interest now. I’m a hands-on father.
So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
My father… had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.
Babies don’t need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.
Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
I pressed my father’s hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.
The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, ‘Don’t spend anything unless you have to.’
Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.
I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
