(12 quotes found)
“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
“A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
Erika Cosby
“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
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“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
“It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home-it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love.”
Margaret Truman
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
