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.
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.'
The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
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.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
There is no such thing as fun for the whole family.
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.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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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