Best quotes on Fatherhood

1. "Sherman made the terrible discovery that men make about their fathers sooner or later . . . that the man before him was not an aging father but a boy, a boy much like himself, a boy who grew up and had a child of his own and, as best he could . . . adopted a role called Being a Father so that his child would have something mythical and infinitely important: a Protector, who would keep a lid on all the chaotic and catastrophic possibilities of life." —Tom Wolfe, The Bonfire of the Vanities
2. "My mother protected me from the world, and my father threatened me with it." —Quentin Crisp
3. "My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' " —Harmon Killebrew
4. "You don't put kids under surveillance: It might frighten you. Parents should sit tall in the saddle and look upon their troops with a noble and benevolent and extremely nearsighted gaze." —Garrison Keillor
5. "A man that doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man." —Marlon Brando as Don Corleone in The Godfather
6. "When I was a boy of 14 my father was so ignorant that I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in only 7 years." —Mark Twain
Taken from Mens Health (and no I don't read the magazine - I linked there from Dudes-to-Dad)