" Friends come and go like the waves of the ocean, but the true ones stay, like an octopus on your face. "

— Unknown

" A dad is a daughter’s first hero. "

— Unknown

" It was my father who taught me to value myself. "

— Dawn French

" In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. "

— Martin Luther King Jr.

" I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father’s protection. "

— Sigmund Freud

" People pay for what they do, and, still more, for what they have allowed themselves to become. And they pay for it simply: by the lives they lead. "

— James Baldwin