All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
My kids are just waiting for me at home. I'm their father. They're wondering, 'When's Daddy coming home?'
If someone lies, well, you had a choice to trust that person or not. I think the way my father raised me, well, he trusted everybody. And that worked for him.
Marriage is a school itself. Also, having children. Becoming a father changed my whole life. It taught me as if by revelation.
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
My father will anticipate everything. He will leave you and me no chance to do a great and brilliant deed.
To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Here was buried Thomas Jefferson Author of the Declaration of American Independence Of the Statute of Virginia for religious freedom & Father of the University of Virginia.
How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
