“My father didn't tell me how to live. He lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
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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 the old man had learned in seven years.
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“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare · The Merchant of Venice
“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.”
Harmon Killebrew
“The quality of a father can be seen in the goals, dreams and aspirations he sets not only for himself, but for his family.”
Reed Markham
“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.”
John Gregory Brown · Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery
“A girl's father is the first man in her life, and probably the most influential.”
David Jeremiah
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
Bill Cosby · Fatherhood, 1986
“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
“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
