Quotes

Published June 15, 2012

I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started. — Bartrand Hubbard

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

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

A man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons, one father. — George Herbert

Becoming a father is easy enough, but being one can be very rough. — Wilhelm Busch

Good fathers make good sons. — Anonymous

Any man can be a father, but it takes a special person to be a dad. — Anonymous

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance. — Ruth E. Renkel

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. — Anne Sexton

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

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. — Aziza Friedrich Nietzsche 

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