“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us.”
Umberto Eco · Foucault's Pendulum
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“When I was young, my father told me that my mother would teach me how to love, and he would teach me how to live.”
Common attribution, traditional
“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it. I think that is the best lesson a father can give.”
Will Rogers
“To her, the name of father was another name for love.”
Fanny Fern
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”
Charles Wadsworth
“Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad.”
Anne Geddes
“The greatest gift I ever had came from God; I call him Dad.”
Unknown
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
Frank A. Clark
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
