A man knows when

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez

To a father growing

To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides

To be a successful

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 father is always

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold

It is not flesh

It is not flesh and blood, but heart which makes us fathers and sons. Friedrich Schiller

A real man loves

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father. Frank Abagnale

Oh, the comfort –

Oh, the comfort – the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person – having neither to weigh thoughts nor to measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together. Dinah Maria Murlock Craik