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The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

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The fundamental defect of fathers is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

—Bertrand Russell

He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t 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.

—Erma Bombeck

I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.

—Mario Cuomo

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

—Anne Sexton

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

—Kent Nerburn

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

—Henry Ward Beecher

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

—Jim Valvano

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

I was my father’s daughter... I am many things besides, but I am daddy’s girl too, and so I will remain — all the way to the old folk’s home.

—Paula Weideger

My father instilled in me that if you don’t see things happening the way you want them to, you get out there and make them happen.

—Susan Powter

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

—Laurie Beth Jones

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

—Bill Cosby

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