| "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." - Clarence Budington Kelland |
"The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father." - Austin O'Malley |
| "I've had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started." - Bartrand Hubbard |
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." - Charles Wadsworth |
| "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 easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father." - Pope John XXII |
"When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." - Jewish Proverb |
| "I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection." - Sigmund Freud |
"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." - Homer
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| "One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters." - George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640 |
| "When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.' - Jan Hutchins |
| "It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons. - Johann Schiller |
| "There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence." - Samuel Johnson |
| "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 |
| "Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes." - Euripedes |
