I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund FreudRead
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I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
But I want her to grow up knowing that I was the first man ever to fall in love with her. I'd always thought the father/daughter thing was overstated. But I can tell you, sometimes, she looks at me and I just become a puddle.
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
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.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire; to our sons, ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
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.
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