About Fatherhood…

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
– Pope John XXIII

Small boys become big men through the influence of big men who care about small boys.
– Anonymous

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

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.
– Abraham Lincoln

The most important thing that a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
– Theodore M. Hesburgh

Any man can be a father but it takes someone special to be a dad.
– Anne Geddes

My father didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.
– C.B. Kelland

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
– Jewish Proverb

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection.
– Sigmund Freud

When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.”
– Jerry Lewis

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.
– Charles Wadsworth

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

I just owe almost everything to my father [and] it’s passionately interesting for me that the things that I learned in a small town, in a very modest home, are just the things that I believe have won the election.”
– Margaret Thatcher

A man’s children and his garden both reflect the amount of weeding done during the growing season.
– Unknown