“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“Be kind to thy father, for when thou were young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.”
Margaret Courtney
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad”
Proverb
“One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.”
George Herbert
“That is the thankless position of the father in the family-the provider for all, and the enemy of all.”
August Strindberg
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