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. -Clarence Budington Kelland
Be a dad. Don’t be "Mom’s Assistant".... Be a man.... Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can’t dress and feed a four-year-old ? Take it on. Spend time with your kids.... It won’t take away your manhood, it will give it to you. - Louis C.K.
Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. - Reed Markham
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Father ! — to God himself we cannot give a holier name. - William Wordsworth
He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it. - Clarence Budington Kelland
The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. - Antoine-Fran莽ois, Abb茅 Pr茅vost d’Exiles
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
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." - Harmon Killebrew
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway. - Robert Brault
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. - Author Unknown
One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters. - George Herbert
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The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. - Angelo Patri
A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty. - Author Unknown
I love my father as the stars — he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. - Terri Guillemets
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My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century. - Antonio Porchia
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father’s equal, and I never loved any other man as much. - Hedy Lamarr
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her
back again. - Enid Bagnold
The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad !
- Author Unknown
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The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature. - Antoine-Fran莽ois, Abb茅 Pr茅vost d’Exiles
Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad. - Author Unknown
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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
The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road. - Angelo Patri
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Why are men reluctant to become fathers ? They aren’t through being children. - Cindy Garner
