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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
1898-1961, American Writer
One father is
more than a hundred schoolmasters.
-- George Herbert
1593-1632, British
Metaphysical Poet
The most
important thing a father can do for his children is to love
their mother.
-- Theodore M. Hesburgh
1917-, American Clergyman,
University President
There are
fathers who do not love their children, but there is no
grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
-- Victor Hugo
1802-1885, French Poet,
Dramatist, Novelist
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By profession
I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder
-- infinitely prouder -- to be a father. A soldier destroys
in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys.
The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies
creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty,
the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope
that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the
battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple
daily prayer, ''Our Father Who Art in Heaven.''
-- Douglas Macarthur
1880-1964, American Army
General in WW II
A man knows
when he is growing old because he begins to look like his
father.
-- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
1928-, Colombian Writer
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
I it took such months to get.
-- Phyllis Mcginley
1905-1978, American Poet,
Author
Don't make a
baby if you can't be a father.
-- National Urban League
Slogan
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