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.
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.'
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.
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.
It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.
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.
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