Fatherly Legacy Quotes

This Government was made by our fathers on the white basis ... made by white men for the benefit of white men and their posterity forever.’

My father, when he went, made my childhood a gift of a half a century.

My father had lived in the States in the 1960s for a while and came to love American Songbook material. Even today, he sometimes recognizes singers that I never even heard of, which is beautiful and inspiring.

I remember somewhere in his 70s, my dad started wearing a nightgown - like an old-school grandpa gown! I can see how that might be somewhere in my future.

Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.

As I've mentioned, a large part of my father's legacy is the lesson he taught his sons. He brought us together and said, 'The measure of a man is how well he provides for his children.

My dad was a really good golfer, and he just taught me how to play.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.