"Any man can be a father.  It takes someone special to be a dad." ~ Unknown

"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me." ~Jim Valvano

"Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope." ~Bill Cosby

'When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry." ~William Shakespeare

"My father instilled in me the attitude of prevailing. If there's a challenge, go for it. If there's a wall to break down, break it down." ~Danny Osmond

"It is a wise father that knows his own child." ~William Shakespeare

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~George Herbert

"A baby has a way of making a man out of his father and a boy out of his grandfather." ~Angie Papadakis

"He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." ~Clarence Budington Kellard

"It is much easier to become a father than to be one." ~Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994

"My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard.  Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass."  "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply.  "We're raising boys." ~Harmon Killebrew

"A man is at his tallest when he stoops to help another." ~Don Carter

"It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons." ~Johann Schiller

"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."  ~Author Unknown

"How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board.  It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted." ~Walter Scott

"Dad, your guiding hand on my shoulder will remain with me forever." ~Author Unknown

"I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart."  ~Terri Guillemets

"A father carries pictures of his children where his money used to be.” ~Author Unknown

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
~ Charles Wasworth

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