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Any man can be a father,
but it takes a special
person to be a dad.
Proverb
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When
I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when
I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much
he had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
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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
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He opened the
jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only
one in the
house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself.
He cut
himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It
was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around
to the
door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription
filled. He took lots of pictures. . . but he was never in them.
Erma Bombeck
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Every
dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his
fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
Jack Baker
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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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He
who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's
wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his
father's care.
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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 It took such months to get.
Phyllis McGinley
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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.
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It's only when you grow up, and step back from
him, or leave him
for your own career and your own home—it's
only then that you can
measure his greatness and fully
appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.
Margaret Truman |
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You will find that if you really try to be a
father, your child will meet you halfway.
Robert Brault |
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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."
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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.
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That is the thankless position of the father in
the family--
the provider for all, and the enemy of all.
J. August Strindberg |
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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.
Garrison Keillor |
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Fathers, like mothers, are not born.
Men grow
into fathers-- and
fathering is a very important stage in
their development.
David M. Gottesman |
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A dad is someone who wants to catch you
before you fall but
instead picks you up, brushes you off, and lets you try again.
A dad is someone who wants to keep you from making mistakes
but instead lets you find your own way, even though his
heart breaks in silence when you get hurt.
A dad is someone who holds you when you cry, scolds you
when you break the rules, shines with pride when you succeed,
and has faith in you even when you fail.
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I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught
people in fifty
years what my father taught by example in one
week.
Mario Cuomo |
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He
didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do
it.
Clarence Budington Kelland |
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One father is more than a hundred
schoolmasters.
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4 years: My Daddy can do
anything!
7 years: My Dad knows a lot…a whole lot.
8 years: My father does not know quite
everything.
12 years: Oh well, naturally Father does not
know that either.
14 years: Oh, Father? He is hopelessly
old-fashioned.
21 years: Oh, that man--he is out of date!
25 years: He knows a little bit about it, but
not much.
30 years: I must find out what Dad thinks about
it.
35 years: Before we decide, we will get Dad's
idea first.
50 years: What would Dad have thought about
that?
60 years: My Dad knew literally everything!
65 years: I wish I could talk it over with Dad
once more.
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It
is easier for a father to have children than for children to
have a real father.
Pope John XXIII |
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It is a
wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare |
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My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived,
and let me watch him do it.
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