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

"None of you can ever be proud enough of being the child of such a father who has not his equal in this world -- so great, so good, so faultless. Try, all of you, to follow in his footsteps and don't be discouraged, for to be really in everything like him none of you, I am sure, will ever be. Try, therefore, to be like him in some points, and you will have acquired a great deal." -- Victoria, Queen of England

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

"It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all." -- Alice Walker

"That is the thankless position of the father in the family -- the provider for all, and the enemy of all." -- J. August Strindberg

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." -- Anne Sexton

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." -- English Proverb

"I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen 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." -- Mario Cuomo

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

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father." -- Sigmund Freud

"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

"Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" -- Lydia M. Child

"To be a successful father… there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years." -- Ernest Hemingway