The Quotable Dad

Book Overview

Dad will have a happy Father's Day--or any day--when he opens this collection meant just for him. More than 270 memorable quotations --some wise, some thoughtful, some hilarious--reveal different... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1585744506
• ISBN13: 9781585744503
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: UNKNO
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 2.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.0" x 1.0" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

In Praise of Fatherhood

I received this book yesterday as a Father's Day present. It is both brief and profound, with quotations from a wide range of leaders and writers on fatherhood from Jimmy Carter and Bill Cosby to John Wayne and William Carlos Williams. I would strongly recommend it as a Father's Day gift in the future. I would also recommend it to men on the verge of becoming fathers, men who have just become fathers, and fathers in need of some inspiration. The quotations also serve as a guide to contemporary books and authorities on fatherhood, such as Marcus Jacob Goldman's The Joy of Fatherhood, Peter Carey's The Granta Book of the Family, Kevin Osborn's The Complete Idiot's Guide to Fatherhood, Annie Pigeon's Dad's Little Instruction Book, John L. Hart's Becoming A Father, Peter Mayle's How to Be a Pregnant Father, William Plummer's Wishing My Father Well, Paul Riser's Couplehood, Bill Cosby's Fatherhood, and H. Jackson Browne's A Father's Book of Wisdom. The book has eight chapters, focusing on becoming a father, being a better father, fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, a father's wisdom,the difficulty of fatherhood, appreciating one's father, and grandfatherhood. All the quotations in the book are at at least stimulating and provocative, and many are vital and profound. Five of my favorites are as follows: "A baby is God's opinion that life should go on," Carl Sandburg "I hope when you grow up you will dedicate your life to working out plans to make people happy instead of making them miserable, as war does today," Joseph P. Kennedy to 8 year old Edward M. Kennedy "Children need models rather than critics, " Joseph Joubert "I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work fifteen and sixteen hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottom of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the eloquence of his example," Mario Cuomo "The lone father is not a strong father. Fathering is a difficult and perilous journey and is done well with the help of other men," John L. Hart The time it takes to get through the book is short, and it is time well spent. The Quotable Dad is an excellent source of inspiration and insight for fathers old and new, and for future fathers galore.