"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week." -- Mario Cuomo
"A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma." -- Marlene Dietrich
"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -- Anne Geddes
"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
"The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get." -- Phyllis McGinley
"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
"How true Daddy's words were when he said: "All children must look after their own upbringing." Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -- Anne Frank
"To be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway
"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- 17th century English proverb
"A man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season." -- Anonymous
"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child
"A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be." -- Carol Coats
"The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them." -- Confucius
"How true Daddy's words were when he said: 'All children must look after their own upbringing.' Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands." -- Anne Frank
"To be a successful father...there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway
"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." -- Mark Twain
"The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother." -- Theodore M. Hesburgh
"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father." -- Pope John XXIII
"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.'
'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'" -- Baseball player Harmon Killebrew
