“You know… fathers just have a way of putting everything together.”
Erika Cosby
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
Clarence Budington Kelland
“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.”
Aldous Huxley
“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.”
Helen Rowland
“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.”
Austin O’Malley
“The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.”
Confucius
“He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father’s wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father’s care.”
William Penn
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.”
Charles Wadworth
“Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.”
Anonymous
“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, The Bonfire of the Vanities