Dad Quotes, Quotations, Sayings and Remarks



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  • My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense. Fred Allen
  • 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. Billie Joe Armstrong
  • A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. Enid Bagnold
  • A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool. Michael Bergin
  • 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
  • But the love of adventure was in father's blood. Buffalo Bill
  • When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching. Robert Bly
  • My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it. Victor Borge
  • Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business. Tom Bosley
  • My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. Beau Bridges
  • When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. Lou Brock
  • I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more. Gordon Brown
  • 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. Frank Butler
  • So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued. Nick Cannon
  • I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. Orson Scott Card
  • Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. Angela Carter
  • Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes. Prince Charles
  • Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope. John Ciardi
  • Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law? Dick Clark
  • A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be, A father is someone who carries pictures where his money used to be. Frank Howard Clark
  • My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother. Broderick Crawford
  • Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful. Cindy Crawford
  • My father was something of a rainbow-chaser. Marc Davis
  • I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it. Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.' Daisy Donovan
  • All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other. George Eliot
  • My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him. Eminem
  • To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter. Euripides
  • Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. Sam Ewing
  • My father was never anti-anything in our house. Errol Flynn
  • It is impossible to please all the world and one's father. Jean de La Fontaine
  • I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship. Harrison Ford
  • I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office. Harrison Ford
  • My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this. Jeff Foxworthy
  • 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. Dawn French
  • You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's. Robert Frost
  • I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father. Annette Funicello
  • Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten. Conrad Hall
  • I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend. Dante Hall
  • But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father. Herbie Hancock
  • Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of. Amy Heckerling
  • No, I never thought about my father's money as my money. Christie Hefner
  • One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters. George Herbert
  • My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker. Anthony Hopkins
  • Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers. Horace
  • Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything. Oliver Hudson
  • Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things. Oliver Hudson
  • Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful. William Hurt
  • Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers. Aldous Huxley
  • 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. Miguel Indurain
  • I just wish I could understand my father. Michael Jackson
  • It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father. Pope John XXIII
  • My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby. Star Jones
  • My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. Janis Joplin
  • 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. Chief Joseph
  • My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people. Chief Joseph
  • Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers. Herbert Kaufman
  • As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me. Christine Keeler
  • The most important influence in my childhood was my father. DeForest Kelley
  • Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works. Shahrukh Khan
  • 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. Dean Koontz
  • A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad. Lenny Kravitz
  • 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. Hedy Lamarr
  • I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic. Diane Lane
  • My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer. Anna Lee
  • Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table. James Levine
  • I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. John Lithgow
  • I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out. Jay London
  • I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set. John Malkovich
  • One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other. Camryn Manheim
  • I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please. Robert Mapplethorpe
  • My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be. Robert Mapplethorpe
  • I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back. Imelda Marcos
  • A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents. Margaret Mead
  • The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world. Christopher Meloni
  • It is much easier to become a father than to be one. Kent Nerburn
  • My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men. Simon Newcomb
  • I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern. Anais Nin
  • I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle. Tatum O'Neal
  • 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. Joel Osteen
  • My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. Gwyneth Paltrow
  • Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father. Sean Penn
  • To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship. Wendell Phillips
  • I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life. Sidney Poitier
  • I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. Charley Pride
  • Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them. Anthony Quinn
  • Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill. Michael Reagan
  • Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted. Michael Reagan
  • Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen. Kid Rock
  • My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. David Rockefeller
  • If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now. Ray Romano
  • My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. Pete Rose
  • The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them. Bertrand Russell
  • The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. Bertrand Russell
  • Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle. Adam Sandler
  • 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. Adam Sandler
  • My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. Amy Sedaris
  • It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Anne Sexton
  • The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.' Dinah Shore
  • My father taught me how to substitute realities. Mira Sorvino
  • There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. Gertrude Stein
  • That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all. August Strindberg
  • As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation. Gloria Swanson
  • An angry father is most cruel towards himself. Publilius Syrus
  • What harsh judges fathers are to all young men! Terence
  • My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. Harry S. Truman
  • No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair. Margaret Turnbull
  • I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him. Liv Tyler
  • Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows. Al Unser
  • My father loved people, children and pets. Tony Visconti
  • Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me? Dionne Warwick
  • My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone. Damon Wayans
  • 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. Barry White
  • The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war. E. B. White
  • The child is father of the man. William Wordsworth

 

  

  

 

  

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