“I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it's passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.” – Margaret Thatcher
“Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.” – Pam Brown
“My son, obey your father's commands, and don't neglect your mother's teaching.” — Proverbs 6:20
“My father said, ‘Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'” – Dexter Scott King
“The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.” – Unknown
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.” – Jim Valvano
“He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” – Clarence Budington Kelland
“It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.” – Johann Schiller
“A father carries pictures where his money used to be.” – Unknown
“Never raise your hand to your kids. It leaves your groin unprotected.” – Red Buttons
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.” – Charles Wadworth
“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.” – Unknown
“I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.” – Sigmund Freud
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.” – Pope John XXIII
“The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.” – Christopher Meloni
“My prescription for success is based on something my father always used to tell me: You should never try to be better than someone else, but you should never cease trying to be the best you can be.” – John Wooden
“A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty.” – Unknown
“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.’” – Jerry Lewis
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.” – Billy Graham
“A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.” – Anonymous
“The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, ‘Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.” – Garrison Keillor
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