Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
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.'
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
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.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
There are three stages of man: he believes in Santa Claus; he does not believe in Santa Claus; he is Santa Claus.
You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.
There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?
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.
Dad - a son's first hero, a daughter's first love.
The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
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.
It was my father who taught me to value myself.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: