Fathers

The greatest gift I ever had
Came from God; I call him Dad!
~Author Unknown

"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -- Anne Geddes

"Every mother generally hopes that her daughter will snag a better husband than she managed to do...but she's certain that her boy will never get as great a wife as his father did." -- Anonymous

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." -- Enid Bagnold

"If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right." -- Bill Cosby

"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

"Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes. " -- Euripedes

"A father is a banker provided by nature." -- French Proverb

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

"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development." -- David M. Gottesman

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

"My father taught me to work; he did not teach me to love it." -- Abraham Lincoln