“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
Pope John XXIII
“I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.”
Halle Berry
“I’m always going to love my father.”
Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
“I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father’s life.”
Sidney Poitier
“The first World Cup I remember was in the 1950 when I was 9 or 10 years old. My father was a soccer player, and there was a big party, and when Brazil lost to Uruguay, I saw my father crying.”
Pele
“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
“One of the greatest gifts my father gave me – unintentionally – was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.”
Ben Okri
Heroic Times 