Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
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.
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.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.
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.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.
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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