"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
- Sigmund Freud

"The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother."

"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

"A Man's children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season."

"The greatest gift I ever had came from God, and I call him Dad!"

He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
- Clarence Budington Kelland

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."
- Harmon Killebrew

One father is more than a hundred School Masters.
- George Herbert

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
- Bill Cosby

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.
- William Wordsworth

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."

I don't care how poor a man is; if he has family, he's rich.
- M*A*S*H, Colonel Potter

"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever."

"Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad."

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.
- Confucius