Just as the child is father to the man, so the impressions of one's youth remain the most vivid in manhood.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I think daughters can change the perception of their fathers.
Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
The essence of parenthood is to make children think that they are the most handsome, intelligent, brilliant person in the world.
There is frequently more to be learned from the unexpected questions of a child than the discourses of men.
It used to be that a son could look at the father, and pretty much know what life was gonna be like as an adult. There was confidence in that, and comfort in that, and frustration also.
An honest man is always a child.
Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.
A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.
What is youth except a man or woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
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