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He has always provided me a safe place to land and a hard place from which to launch.
Sep 17, 2025
Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never sympathize with me; you can never know how much of me such a young child can take away. A few weeks ago I accounted myself a very rich man, and now the poorest of all.
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
The only way I can describe it-at the end of How the Grinch Stole Christmas, you know how his heart grows like five times? Everything is full; it's just full all the time.
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."
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.
I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
Never love anything that can't love you back.
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.
I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.
Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.
It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later.
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
The greatest gift I ever had Came from God; I call him Dad!
Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher's mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.
It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.
My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later... that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life. ~Tom Wolfe
Oh, the comfort - the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person - having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together.
Friendship is the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words.
My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with a breath of kindness, blow the rest away.
Keep what is worth keeping and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Are we not like two volumes of one book?
It is a wise father that knows his own child.