(44 quotes found)
“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
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.”
Sigmund Freud
“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”
Ruth E. Renkel
“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
William Shakespeare
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
Enid Bagnold
“It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons.”
Friedrich von Schiller
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
Anne Sexton
“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
“You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
Erika Cosby
