I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.

My father was not a failure. After all he was the father of a president of the United States.

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.

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

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

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.

Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers.

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

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

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

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

The fundamental defect of fathers in our competitive society is that they want their children to be a credit to them.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one particularly if he plays golf.

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Fathers are biological necessities but social accidents.

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 just wish I could understand my father.

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

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.

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.

I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal and I never loved any other man as much.

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