My father was always there for me when I lost. But, then, I never really lost when my father was there.

—Laurie Beth Jones

He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn’t afraid to into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures ... but he was never in them.                                                              —Erma Bombeck

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love the most is soap-on-a-rope.         —Bill Cosby

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

—William Shakespeare

A greedy father has thieves for children.              —Serbian proverb

He wants to live on through something — and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

—Arthur Miller

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived and let me watch him do it. —Clarence Budington Kellard

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.           —Robert Brault

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.

—unknown

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