“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”- Mario Cuomo

“My father died many years ago, and yet when something special happens to me, I talk to him secretly not really knowing whether he hears, but it makes me feel better to half believe it.”- Josefowitz

By profession, I am a soldier and take pride in that fact. But I am prouder – infinitely prouder – to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only builds, never destroys. The one has the potentiality of death; the other embodies creation and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are mightier still. It is my hope that my son, when I am gone, will remember me not from the battle field but in the home repeating with him our simple daily prayer, ‘Our Father who art in Heaven.’- Douglas Macarthur

“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”- Pope John XXII

“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”- Mario Cuomo

“Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.”- Ruth Renkel

“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.”- Anonymous

“The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.”- Austin O’Malley

“To her the name of father was another name for love.”- Fanny Fern