Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.