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

Fathers, like mothers, are

Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development. David Gottesman