Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.

                               —Bill Cosby

My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

                 —Laurie Beth Jones

                                                      

A father is a banker provided by nature.

                       —French proverb

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,” my dad would reply, “we’re raising boys.”

                —Harmon Killebrew

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.

            —Henry Ward Beecher

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

          —William Shakespeare

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

                           —Anne Sexton

I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.

                          —Mario Cuomo

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

                      —Ruth E. Renkel

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.

                      —Sigmund Freud

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

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

              —Charles Wadsworth