“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
“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