“ Every child grows up thinking their father is a hero or villain until they are old enough to realize that he is just a man Mark Maish
“ All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could. Alice Walker
“ Help your fatherAs he ages And loses his strengthFor it was he who sheltered youAnd protected you from the stormsKhoiSan Book of Wisdom rassool jibraeel snyman
“ Success is not due to spontaneous combustion. You have to set yourself on fire. Various attributed sources
“ I recall those beautiful summer mornings with my parents by the sandy beach of Belek. My father used to teach me how to ride waves. I remember him constantly emphasizing the fact that no wave, no matt… Malak El Halabi
“ Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter; dearer than eye-sight, space, and liberty, beyond waht can be valued, rich or rare; no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much… William Shakespeare
“ But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before. Jane Smiley
“ I had never confronted my parents with the true feelings I had for them, and I had certainly never expressed the depth of my feeling for my mother, being too selfish to try when I should have. Brooke Hayward
“ Incidentally, I have also learned a bit about the importance of avoiding feminine embarrassment ('Daddy,' wrote Sophia when she enrolled at the New School where I teach, 'people will ask why is old Ch… Christopher Hitchens
“ Daughter, we didn't need your note - or a prince's visit - to tell us you'd done nothing wrong. We know the daughter we raised. We fear for your future, but never for your character. You take our love… Gail Carson Levine
“ When I went to first grade and the other children said that their fathers were farmers, I simply didn't believe them. I agreed in order to be polite, but in my heart I knew that those men were imposto… Jane Smiley
“ My dad’s life was magnificent, but only if I let myself see and remember more than his years of decline. Lisa J. Shultz
“ Implicit [in the psychiatric literature] is a set of normative assumptions regarding the father's prerogatives and the mother's obligations within the family, The father, like the children, is presume… Judith Lewis Herman
“ For someone so intuitive,” he said, shaking his head, “sometimes you only see what you expect to see. M.A. George
“ We are born with our father's names. We are not responsible for their failures. We are responsible for what they made us believe in. That is our only obligation. And it is even then a choice which we… Warren Eyster
