There’s something like a line of gold thread running through a man’s words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.”
- John Gregory Brown

“To be a successful father . . . there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years.”
- Ernest Hemingway

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”
- Gabriel García Márquez

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”
- William Shakespeare

“Be kind to thy father,
for when thou wert young,
Who loved thee so fondly as he?
He caught the first accents that fell from thy tongue,
And joined in thy innocent glee.”
- Margaret Courtney

“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.”
- Clarence Budington Kelland