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, Catherine, Ch. 4, FW

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

Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later… that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could, out of a sense of duty and, perhaps love, adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life.  ~Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the VanitiesFarrar Straus Giroux

I love my father as the stars ? he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart. ~Terri Guillemets

Any man can be a father.  It takes someone special to be a dad.  ~Author UnknownFCN

Henry James once defined life as that predicament which precedes death, and certainly nobody owes you a debt of honor or gratitude for getting him into that predicament.  But a child does owe his father a debt, if Dad, having gotten him into this peck of trouble, takes off his coat and buckles down to the job of showing his son how best to crash through it.  ~Clarence Budington KellandCOE

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name.  ~William WordsworthCD

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.  ~Clarence Budington Kelland, about his father; COE

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

The father who would taste the essence of his fatherhood must turn back from the plane of his experience, take with him the fruits of his journey and begin again beside his child, marching step by step over the same old road.  ~Angelo PatriCOE

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.  ~George Herbert, Outlandish Proverbs, 1640, no. 686; CTO

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.  ~Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son: Reflections on Becoming a Man, 1994

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

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.  ~Ruth E. Renkel