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I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.
I talk and talk and talk, and I haven't taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.
That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.
What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.
My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more.
Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'this is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
To people who remember JFK's assassination, JFK Jr. will probably always be that boy saluting his father's coffin.
I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
My dad used to say 'Always fight fire with fire,' which is probably why he got thrown out of the the fire brigade.
I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.
Many a man wishes he were strong enough to tear a telephone book in half - especially if he has a teenage daughter.
My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.
My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.
To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.
A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.
My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Fathers, like mothers, are not born. Men grow into fathers and fathering is a very important stage in their development.
There will always be a few people who have the courage to love what is untamed inside us. One of those men is my father.
Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.
It is unreasonable [for a father] to expect moral success with [his] children without submitting to the laws of morality.
Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.
Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.
When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.'
I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.
I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong.
I thought I would be more inspired to have all these new feelings to talk about, but I really just want to hang out with my daughter.
The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.
Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
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.
Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!
You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.
My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.
My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now.
The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.
And he that is taught to live upon little, owes more to his father's wisdom, than he that has a great deal left him, does to his father's care.
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a remarkable pattern may not be lost to the world.
My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'
As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.
In times of trouble you can count on your self. In times of disaster you can count on your friends. In times of sorrow you can count on your Father.
My father was frightened of his mother. I was frightened of my father and I am damned well going to see to it that my children are frightened of me.
It no longer bothers me that I may be constantly searching for father figures; by this time, I have found several and dearly enjoyed knowing them all.
When a child, my dreams rode on your wishes, I was your son, high on your horse, My mind a top whipped by the lashes Of your rhetoric, windy of course.
When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, 'Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?' He answered, 'If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.