A boy, by the age of three years, senses that his destiny is to be a man, so he watches his father particularly–his interests, manner, speech, pleasures, his attitude toward work…
– Benjamin Spock and Michael B. Rothenberg
Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what’s in him and what’s been given him.
– Laurence Rockefeller
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
To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child’s delight added to your own so that there is now a double delight seen in the glow of trust and affection, this is happiness.
– J.B. Priestley
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
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.
– Phyllis Diller
As you journey through [life], you will encounter all sorts of these nasty little upsets, and you will either learn to adjust yourself to them or gradually go nuts.
– Groucho Marx
Be kind to thy father, for when thou wert young, who loved thee so fondly as he? He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue, and joined in thy innocent glee.
– Margaret Courtney
When dealing with a two-year-old in the midst of a tantrum, fathers need to be particularly watchful about the tendency to need to feel victorious.
– Dr. Kyle Pruett
No man can possibly know what life means, what the world means, what the world means, what anything means, until he has a child and loves it.
– Lafcadio Hearn
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