Famous Dad Quotes

"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

"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, Royalty

"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

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novelist

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

George Eliot, Author

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

Horace, Poet

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

E. B. White, Writer

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

Buffalo Bill, Celebrity

"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

"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, Musician

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

David Rockefeller, Businessman

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

Gwyneth Paltrow, Actress

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

Christie Hefner, Businessman

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of"

Amy Heckerling, Director

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

Oliver Hudson, Actor

"Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

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

James Levine, Musician

"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby"

Star Jones, Entertainer

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

Lenny Kravitz, Musician

"Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill"

Michael Reagan, Radio host

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

Simon Newcomb, Mathematician

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

Enid Bagnold, Author

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

Pope John XXIII, Clergyman

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

Wendell Phillips, Activist

"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, Writer

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

Jay London, Comedian

"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

"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

"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten"

Conrad Hall, Artist

"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

"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

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

Christopher Meloni, Actor

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

Dick Clark, Entertainer

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

William Hurt, Actor

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