"I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week."
-- Mario Cuomo

"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

"A father is a guy who has snapshots in his wallet where his money used to be."
-- Unknown

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"A father is a banker provided by nature."
-- French Proverb

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

"Any man can be a Father but it takes someone special to be a dad."
-- Anne Geddes

"Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers - and fathering is a very important stage in their development."
-- David M. Gottesman

"If you think about it seriously, all the questions about the soul and the immortality of the soul and paradise and hell are at bottom only a way of seeing this very simple fact: that every action of ours is passed on to others according to its value, of good or evil, it passes from father to son, from one generation to the next, in a perpetual movement."
-- Antonio Gramsci

"When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, 'She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge.'"
-- Helen Hayes

"One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters."
-- George Herbert

"If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time."
-- Russell Hoban

"For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers."
-- Homer

"A father is a banker...
provided by nature."
-- French Proverb 
"My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, you've had a great life."
-- Elbert Hubbard

"My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it."
--Natasha Josefowitz

"The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan."
-- Garrison Keillor

"My father didn't tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it."
-- Clarence Budington Kelland

"My father told me that all businessmen were sons-of-bitches, but I never believed him until now."
-- John F. Kennedy

"My father said, 'Politics asks the question: Is it expedient? Vanity asks: Is it popular? But conscience asks: Is it right?'""
-- Dexter Scott King