As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
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!
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge."
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
My dad has always taught me these words: care and share.
I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.
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.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.
That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
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