• "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
• "Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad." -- Anne Geddes
• "Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development." -- David M. Gottesman
• "If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement." -- Antonio Gramsci
• "When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'" -- Helen Hayes
• "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- George Herbert
• "If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time." -- Russell Hoban
• "For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers." -- Homer
• "My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life." -- Elbert Hubbard
• "My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it." -- Natasha Josefowitz
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