The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
âBertrand Russell
He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasnât afraid to into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures ... but he was never in them.
âErma Bombeck
I talk and talk and talk, and I havenât taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
âMario Cuomo
It doesnât matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
âAnne Sexton
It is much easier to become a father than to be one.
âKent Nerburn
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
âHenry Ward Beecher
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
âJim Valvano
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, âYouâre tearing up the grass.â âWeâre not raising grass,â my dad would reply, âweâre raising boys.â
âHarmon Killebrew
I was my fatherâs daughter... I am many things besides, but I am daddyâs girl too, and so I will remain â all the way to the old folkâs home.
âPaula Weideger
My father instilled in me that if you donât see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.
âSusan Powter
My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.
âLaurie Beth Jones
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.
âBill Cosby