Our public portrayal of fathers has shifted during my life. TV fathers have 'evolved' from real people like Sheriff Andy Taylor, Beaver's dad Ward Cleaver and Heathcliff 'Cliff' Huxtable, to cartoon dads like Homer Simpson and Seth MacFarlane's caricatures in 'American Dad!' and 'Family Guy.'
Copy QuoteA father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.
Copy Quote View & ShareIt was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
Copy Quote View & ShareA father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
Copy Quote View & ShareWhen I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.
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