Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

My dad is a big Outlaw country guy - Johnny Cash, Johnny Horton, Waylon, Willie. He loves Elvis and turned me onto Elvis. He was always playing me stuff. He and I would sing and entertain the family. We'd have a little skit on Thanksgiving or whatever.

One Christmas my father kept our tree up till March. He hated to see it go. I loved that.

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.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

I've had some amazing people in my life. Look at my father - he came from a small fishing village of five hundred people and at six foot four with giant ears and a kind of very odd expression, thought he could be a movie star. So go figure, you know?

The child is father of the man.

I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that.

I just wish I could understand my father.

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.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

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.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic.

Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

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

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

The most important influence in my childhood was my father.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.

I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries.

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

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Becoming a dad means you have to be a role model for your son and be someone he can look up to.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

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 dad is my best friend, my father, and my boss. When I do something that is exciting and he likes it, it feels three times as good as you can imagine.

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.

I feel so lucky to have both my parents and we all get together at Mum and Dad's at least every fortnight and try to go away on holiday together once a year. When it was Mum and Dad's 50th wedding anniversary, we all went to Devon, which was fabulous.

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.

Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic.

In our family, mom and dad are Longhorns, our first two kids are Aggies and we're hoping our last one is a Longhorn. It gives us family fun on Thanksgiving Day.

One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

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.

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 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.

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.'

When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.

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

I'm a good dad; I spend a lot of time with my kids.

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.

What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!

My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer.

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.

When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.

There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation.

A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

It is impossible to please all the world and one's father.

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.

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.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

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.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

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.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

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.

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes.

My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it.'

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

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.

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.

My dad's not here, but he's watching in heaven.

Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them.

Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works.

When I come home, my daughter will run to the door and give me a big hug, and everything that's happened that day just melts away.

My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.