Famous Dad Quotes

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

"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"

"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, Leader

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

Victor Borge, Musician

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

Anais Nin, Author

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself"

Publilius Syrus, Poet

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

George Eliot, Author

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

Jay London, Comedian

"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, Dramatist

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers"

Horace, Poet

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

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

E. B. White, Writer

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

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"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, Actor

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

Jean de La Fontaine, Poet

"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem"

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

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

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

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

James Levine, Musician

"To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship"

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"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, Actor

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

Harrison Ford, Actor

"Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen"

Kid Rock, Musician

"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale"

David Rockefeller, Businessman

"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, Author

"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, Comedian

"A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

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

Eminem, Musician

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

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

"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, Actor

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows"

Al Unser, Athlete

"My father loved people, children and pets"

Tony Visconti, Musician

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

Michael Bergin, Actor

"The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world"

Christopher Meloni, Actor

"My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him"

Amy Sedaris, Actress

"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, Actress

"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, Actor

"The most important influence in my childhood was my father"

DeForest Kelley, Actor

"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me"

Christine Keeler, Model

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

Daisy Donovan, Actress

"Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business"

Tom Bosley, Actor

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