The most important thing a
father can do for his children is to love their mother.
-Henry Ward Beecher
It is a wise child that knows his own father.
-Homer
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
-William Shakespeare
The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in
the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful
friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.
-Benjamin Franklin

And, ye fathers, provoke not your children to wrath: but bring
them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.
-Ephesians 6:4

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