"I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
-- Sigmund Freud.
"A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child."
--the Knights of Pythagoras
"A truly rich man is one whose children run into his arms when his hands are empty."
-- Author Unknown.
"Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name."
-- William Wordsworth.
"One night a father overheard his son pray:
Dear God, Make me the kind of man my Daddy is.
Later that night, the Father prayed,
Dear God, Make me the kind of man my son wants me to be."
-- Author Unknown.
"When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant
I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one,
I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years."
-- Mark Twain.
