* "I could not point to any need in childhood as strong as that for a father's protection." ~ Sigmund Freud
* "It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was." ~ Anne Sexton
* "Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family." ~ Bil Keane
* "My father used to shirk his parental responsibilities by saying that life was an illusion; karma was also a convenient excuse for foul-ups. In my mind echos: 'Sorry I sold your baseball cards, Monkey, but it's your karma, and life is just an illusion anyway, boy.'" ~ Monkey, Inside Monkey Zetterland
* "The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother." ~ Theodore Hesburgh
* "A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty." ~ Anonymous
* "One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters." ~ George Herbert

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* "Luke, I am your father." - Darth Vader
* "Hell is full of dads." - George Carlin
 

* "A good father lives so he is a credit to his children." ~ Arnold Glasow
* "What a father says to his children is not heard by the world, but it will be heard by posterity." ~ Jean Paul
* "Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life." ~ Oscar Wilde
* "He didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it." ~ Clarence Budington Kelland
* "Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father!" ~ Lydia M. Child, Philothea: A Romance, 1836
* "A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again." ~ Enid Bagnold
* "Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance." ~ Ruth E. Renkel
* "Any man can be a father. It takes someone special to be a dad." ~ Author Unknown
* "There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus." ~ Author