(38 quotes found)
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
Enid Bagnold
“Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.”
Robert Orben
“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”
Mario Cuomo
“None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of SUCH a Father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal.”
Queen Victoria
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.”
William Penn
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
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