You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. He's more particular. ~ Robert Frost
Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad. ~ Anne Geddes
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection. ~ Sigmund Freud
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons. ~ James Baldwin
My heart is happy, my mind is free. I had a father who talked with me. ~ Hilde Bigelow
By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong. ~ Charles Wadsworth
We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
A father carries pictures where his money used to be. ~ Unknown
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope. ~ Bill Cosby
Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other. ~ Joseph Joubert
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. ~ George Herbert
Dad, you're someone to look up to no matter how tall I've grown. ~ Author Unknown
The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat. ~ Robert Frost
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. ~ William Shakespeare
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. ~ Albert Einstein
It is much easier to become a father than to be one. ~ Kent Nerburn
My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Children learn to smile from their parents. ~ Shinichi Suzuki
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. ~ George Bernard Shaw
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me. ~ Jim Valvano
It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. ~ Johann Schiller
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. ~ Billy Graham
Noble fathers have noble children. ~ Euripides
It is a wise father that knows his own child. ~ William Shakespeare
A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season. ~ Unknown