"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."
"It is a wise father that knows his own child."
"I just wish I could understand my father."
"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 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."
"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."
"I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship."
"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 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 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 stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."
"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."
"I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out."
"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."
"I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic."
"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."
"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."
"I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend."
"I'm a father; that's what matters most. Nothing matters more."
"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'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife."
"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."
"If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now."
"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was."
"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."
"My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone."
"My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men."
"My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house."
"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."
"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."