It is a wise father that knows his own child.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father both cry.

Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.

A man cannot speak to his son but as a father, to his wife but as a husband, to his enemy but upon terms, whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

It is a wise father that knows his own child.

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her, before Father Time takes it away.

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.

My son Luke thinks it's cool that his dad quit his job

Certain is it that there is no kind of affection so purely angelic as of a father to a daughter. In love to our wives there is desire, to our sons ambition, but to our daughters there is something which there are no words to express.

On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did and observed that they both looked very ugly.

I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina, but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially, because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension.

To support mother and father to cherish wife and child and to have a simple livelihood, this is the good luck.

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.

Full fathom five thy father lies, of his bones are coral made. Those are pearls that were his eyes. Nothing of him that doth fade, but doth suffer a sea-change into something rich and strange.

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.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.

The father who does not teach his son his duties is equally guilty with the son who neglects them.

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes, fathers that children with their judgment looked, and either may be wrong.

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.

Fathers are biological necessities but social accidents.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

God is the mother and father of the world. Our parents are the mother and father of this body.

Mom hates dad, Dad hates mom, it all makes you feel so sad.

My mother groaned, my father wept, into the dangerous world I leapt, helpless naked piping loud, like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

How true Daddy's words were when he said: all children must look after their own upbringing. Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

What must it be like for a little boy to read that daddy never loved mummy?

My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be and much less about what we would do.

My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution.

My dad bless him was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.

My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just over the years it continued to grow.

My dad was good with actions.

What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job, with him taking care of so many relatives he couldn't save any money.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.

Dad kept us out of school but school comes and goes. Family is forever.

`Father O father! what do we here, In this land of unbelief and fear? The Land of Dreams is better far, Above the light of the morning star.

When my mom ran for the Senate my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice 'Why should women have any less say than men about the great decisions facing our nation?'

Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life.

My dad used to say 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie it doesn't influence your intelligence.'

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad coach mentor soldier husband and friend.

I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with.

I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.

Looking back I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical and I think my mom was musical.

Where I come from you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate and I've got a lot of that in me as well.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be and that's the most important thing of all.

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.

I've told Billy if I ever caught him cheating I wouldn't kill him because I love his children and they need a dad. But I would beat him up. I know where all of his sports injuries are.

Great dad. Yeah he would ask me for money on birthdays and you know inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.

I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'.

You know my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now I understand why. If I do my job well I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams.

Dad almost died of a heart attack in the middle of making Apocalypse Now the biggest movie of his life. It doesn't make you want to jump into that business.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad, but New York City?

Would not the child's heart break in despair when the first cold storm of the world sweeps over it, if the warm sunlight of love from the eyes of mother and father did not shine upon him like the soft reflection of divine light and love?

I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can and she determines what I can do and where I can do it.

Mom and Dad were married 64 years. And if you wondered what their secret was you could have asked the local florist - because every day Dad gave Mom a rose which he put on her bedside table. That's how she found out what happened on the day my father died - she went looking for him because that morning there was no rose.

My Dad a small-town lawyer was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16 he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from Janesville Wisconsin.

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy, Dear Jack Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

And my dad you're a great actor but you're a better father.

I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.

When I was about 12 years old back in Houston my Dad used to take us to the driving range.

My dad died of a stroke.

I love being a dad. I just love it.

My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy very courteous.

I used to try to make my head explode by holding my breath thinking that if I blew up my head they'd [mom and dad] be sorry.