“A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most

 importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be 

pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?”

― Stephen Colbert, I Am America

“To be the father of growing daughters is to understand something of what Yeats evokes with his imperishable phrase 'terrible beauty.' Nothing can make one so happily exhilarated or so frightened: it's a solid lesson in the limitations of self to realize that your heart is running around inside someone else's body. It also makes me quite astonishingly calm at the thought of death: I know whom I would die to protect and I also understand that nobody but a lugubrious serf can possibly wish for a father who never goes away.”

 ― Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir

Fatherhood, by Pablo Picasso