Fathers

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

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother’s always a Democrat. – Robert Frost

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children. – Cindy Garner

Being a great father is like shaving. No matter how good you shaved today, you have to do it again tomorrow. – Reed Markham

Fathers represent another way of looking at life — the possibility of an alternative dialogue. – Louise J. Kaplan, Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978

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, Decorations in a Ruined Cemetery, 1994

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it. – Quentin Crisp

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 Unknown

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