Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Getty“He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God, God never spoke.”
2Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Getty“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
3Yiddish Proverb
Getty“When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.”
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4Nina LaCour, Hold Still
Getty“He wipes tears off my face and then snot. He uses his hands. He loves me that much.”
5Ken Norton
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Of all the titles I’ve been privileged to have, 'Dad' has always been the best."
6Frank Pittman
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man."
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7The Talmud
Design: Rebekah Lowin"When you teach your son, you teach your son’s son."
8Antoine Francois Prevost
Design: Rebekah Lowin"The heart of a father is the masterpiece of nature."
9George Strait
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Daddies don’t just love their children every now and then, it’s a love without end."
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10Matthew Buckley
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Being a father means you have to think fast on your feet. You must be judicious, wise, brave, tender, and willing to put on a frilly hat and sit down to a pretend tea party."
11Aldous Huxley
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
12Steve Chapman
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Becoming a dad is one thing—being a dad is many things."
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13H. Jackson Browne
Design: Rebekah Lowin"Life doesn’t come with an instruction book—that’s why we have fathers."
14Billy Graham
Design: Rebekah Lowin"A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society."
15Ed Skrein
Photo Credit: Rebekah Lowin"I am a family man, and my most important role is a father to my son."
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16Nishan Panwar
Photo Credit: Rebekah Lowin"A son needs his father at every situation he faces in present, and a father needs his son at every situation he faces for his son in past."
17George Eliot
Photo Credit: Rebekah Lowin"It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
18Johann Schiller
Photo Credit: Rebekah Lowin"It's not flesh and blood but the heart that makes us father and son."
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19Charles Wadsworth
Photo Credit: Rebekah Lowin"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong."
20Walter M. Schirra, Sr.
Photo Credit: Rebekah Lowin"You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in our own eyes."
Jennifer Aldrich was the editorial assistant for CountryLiving.com.
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