A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.
A father carries pictures where his money used to be.
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 father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
There should be a children's song: 'If you're happy and you know it, keep it to yourself and let your dad sleep'.
The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.
My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
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.
Having children is like living in a frat house - nobody sleeps, everything's broken, and there's a lot of throwing up.
My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass'; 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'
When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
My father was a statesman, I'm a political woman. My father was a saint. I'm not.
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.
There's something like a line of gold thread running through a man's words when he talks to his daughter, and gradually over the years it gets to be long enough for you to pick up in your hands and weave into a cloth that feels like love itself.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.
Choose a career you love and you will never have to go to work.
"Reverence for parents" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.
He's [Harry S. Truman] just your dad, and you love him. It's only when you grow up, and step back from him, or leave him for your own career and your own home - it's only then that you can measure his greatness and fully appreciate it. Pride reinforces love. My father was a great man.
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.
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