It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.
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.
Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.
I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.
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.
All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.
There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.
My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.
I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life.
I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.
I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.
I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world.
I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do.