If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
~ Bill Cosby - [Fathers]

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.
~ Erika Cosby - [Fathers]

Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
~ Margaret Courtney - [Fathers]

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
~ Mario Cuomo - [Fathers]

What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.
~ Mary Mapes Dodge - [Fathers]

Noble fathers have noble children.
~ Euripides - [Fathers]

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
~ Euripides - [Fathers]

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
~ Sigmund Freud - [Fathers]

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 - [Fathers]

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
~ George Herbert - [Fathers]

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
~ Theodore M. Hesburgh - [Fathers]

There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
~ Victor Hugo - [Fathers]

By profession I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder -- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''
~ Douglas Macarthur - [Fathers]

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez - [Fathers]

The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, believing change is a threat -- like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle I it took such months to get.
~ Phyllis Mcginley - [Fathers]

Don't make a baby if you can't be a father.
~ National Urban League Slogan - [Fathers]

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche - [Fathers]

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
~ Anais Nin - [Fathers]

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.
~ Austin O'Malley - [Fathers]