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A father is a fellow who has replaced the currency in his wallet with snapshots of his kids. — Michael Forest

A man can never compete with a woman's father — Richelle Mead

When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy. — Bertrand Piccard

I got my dad a great father's Day present. He called to say: 'Ach. Zis present is so good I now think it vas almost vorth having children. — Johann Hari

Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes. — Martin Luther

My father used to always give me a basketball, a skate board, and a bike every Christmas. That's all I wanted every year. — Amar'e Stoudemire

Oh, I guess I'm physically able to father a child. That's not what I'm thinking. I'm too closely married to a quiet reading lamp. — John Steinbeck

Industrialization created the Father's Catch-22:;: a dad loving his children by being away from the love of his children. — Warren Farrell

My father taught me that losing your temper is a self-indulgent act. — Hugh Jackman

My father had bought him a shirt
that said Sure you can date my daughter. In a completely unrelated topic,
have you seen my shotgun? — Tara Sivec

I expected to be a farmer like my father and brothers. Life seemed pleasant and orderly. — Lawrence Welk

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. — Dwight Howard

Family doesn't necessarily mean that you have to have a mother, a father, a little brother, and an older sister. — Bindi Irwin

As a parent, I'd - I'd be a better father. — Alan King

I've done my work and I'm happy with it ... I respect my father very much, but I'm a very different person than he was. — Brandon Lee

God loves us more than a father, mother, friend, or any else could love, and even more than we are able to love ourselves. — Saint John Chrysostom

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent. — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

When I was a kid, my father told me every day, 'You're the most wonderful boy in the world, and you can do anything you want to.' — Jan Hutchins

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. — Larry McMurtry

Not a desire, act, wish, or thought does the Holy Ghost indulge in contrary to that which is dictated by the Father — Brigham Young

He can't be a baby forever. He's a Stark, and near four." Robb sighed. "Well, Mother will be home soon. And I'll bring back Father, I promise. — George R R Martin

My father was a businessman. We had discussions about honesty and dishonesty. — John Cullum

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father. — William Shakespeare

I owe a lot to my parents, especially by mother and my father. — Greg Norman

My father and I had a really good relationship. We're cool. I am not trying to outdo him or anything like that. — Ziggy Marley

Prongs rode again last night ... You know, Harry, in a way, you did see your father last night ... You found him inside yourself. — J.K. Rowling

I cohabited for 20 years with my longtime husband and father of my two now-teen daughters in a stable family household. — Sandra Tsing Loh

If I were a real Creek View girl, the kind Josh liked, I'd be hammered right now, not thinking about my dead father. — Heather Demetrios

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish. — Amor Towles

I destroyed that doll, hoping the sacrifice would somehow reverse time and bring my father back. I was a mad scientist and an angry child. — Walter Mosley

She's so beautiful. She lectures a lot, like her father, but she's really beautiful. — Diana S. Zimmerman

Hyrtacides pummeled his thighs and groaned and bit his lip and said: "O Father Zeus, you, even you, turn out to be a liar." [bk.12] — Homer

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman. — Craig Ferguson

My father was a man, and I know the sex pretty well. — Elizabeth Gaskell

Another family story is forges, one that father and son will laugh about for decades. This is how a legacy is built. One memory at a time. — Mitch Albom

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension. — Marilynne Robinson

My father always said, 'You can do anything a man can do.' — Gwendoline Christie

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence - Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon. — Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

a daughter should
not have to
beg her father
for a relationship — Rupi Kaur

You come from a wonderful family: Your father is the Divine. Your mother is the Earth. You have many siblings. And you are loved. — Robbie Vorhaus

There wasn't a rich father or rich family that paid for everything that I have right now, so I worked my way. — Marat Safin

Has a new father and a new life. I cannot — John Grisham

My father dealt in stocks and shares and my mother also had a lot of time on her hands. — Hermione Gingold

The search for knowledge and the discovery of a great weapon are virtually one and the same. War is the father of everything. — Paul Hoffman

My father is a very strict man. — Nneka

11Then Joseph settled his father and his brothers and gave them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of — Anonymous

That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human. — Markus Zusak

My father was a ham radio geek, and I remember the glow of the vacuum tubes from a Hammarlund receiver that became a hand-me-down to me. — Bre Pettis

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly. — Carol Vorderman

When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love. — A. N. Wilson

I have no doubt that I'd be a marvelous father. Maybe not when they're tiny, but when they're a little bit older, I think I'd be rather good. — Hugh Grant

If I had shown half as many dangerous tendencies when I was a boy, my father would have apprenticed me to a greengrocer, of that I'm very sure, — Samuel Butler

My father started with nothing and is a self-made man. No matter what I do with my life, I can never match his accomplishments. — Tamara Ecclestone

My father came from old money. There was less of an expectation for the children to earn a living. — Kevin Kwan

I worked a long time to get good at what I'm doing, and nobody handed me a recording contract because of who my father is. — Alexa Ray Joel

Being a father makes everything in the world make sense. — Cameron Mathison

When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband. — Madeleine L'Engle

Nick grew up with a father who never ever apologized, so when Nick feels he has screwed up he goes on offense. — Gillian Flynn

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child. — Max Lucado

I grew up middle class. My father was a public functionary who didn't leave an inheritance, just debts. — Sebastian Pinera

But Owen, he hath not a farmer's heart-/
This apple falls quite near his father's tree
- Beru — Ian Doescher

I once asked my father for a dollar for the school picnic. He told me how he once killed a grizzly bear with his loose-leaf notebook. — Bill Cosby

My father had gifted us both with a package of suspicion that sat like a teeth-baring watchdog in our minds. — Tarryn Fisher

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it. — Karl Kraus

My father was both a scientist and a magician, but he declared that it was in literature wherein we discovered our truest natures. — Alice Hoffman

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything. — Carly Simon

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

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father. — Mort Sahl

I can but pray the Father o' a' to haud his e'e upon her, an' his airms aboot her, an' keep aff the hardenin' o' the hert 'at despises coonsel! — George MacDonald

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

I think that's a bit unfair. I'm a father with a 2-year-old child and I feel pretty young, actually. — Gordon Brown

Lobola ("bride price") is a retired broke father's last hope to paying off his debts. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. — Harriet Ann Jacobs

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life. — Apolo Ohno

One of my great values that my father intuited, and indirectly taught me, is that you should always have a plan but be open to opportunity. — Jeff Raikes

A father's suspicion...' she began.
Is as powerful as a mother's intuition.'

~pg 87, Ruana Singh and Jack Salmon — Alice Sebold

On a movie set that works, you have your father figure, the director, you have your siblings, your other actors. — Richard Gere

(Rigg) had often complained that all these languages were useless, and Father had only said, A man who speaks but one language understands none. — Orson Scott Card

I tend to project my father figure onto any director that I'm working with, or mother, if I'm working with a female, or it can be confused. — Guy Pearce

Oh, sorry. I'm not ... uh ... interrupting something that will make me uncomfortable, am I? — G.A. Aiken

Brando's a family friend. His mother gave my father a shot to be in a play at the Omaha Community Playhouse. That was the first production he was in. — Peter Fonda

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father. — Angelina Jolie

When a child grows up without a father, there is an empty place where someone must stand, providing an example of character and confidence. — Steve Largent

Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be. — Cheryl Hines

True faith has no eyes, no ability to see. Instead, the Father left us with the most precious little grain - a tiny little thing - in a mustard seed. — Ursula Denise Walker

The finest achievements are those of the pen ... To me God the Father is a writer. — Leslie Caron

I asked my girlfriend, 'Will you marry me?' She said, 'We'll have to ask my father.' So we had a seance and Jack Ruby says, 'Hello!' — Emo Philips

My father had a very violent temper, and he was never home. So I was kind of a mama's boy. — Marilyn Manson

There's a Mother's Day and there's a Father's Day, but there's no Children's Day. It would mean a lot. World peace. — Michael Jackson

There can be no such thing as a successful traitor, for if one succeeds he becomes a founding father. The — Saul D. Alinsky

They were two very religious people. My father was a foundry worker and was a daily Mass attender, as was my mother. — Martin McGuinness

In one book, your father is a hero. In another book, he is a monster. The men who don't have books written about them have it easier. — Jaroslav Kalfar

People ask me, do I ever disagree with my father? It would be a little strange if I didn't. — Ivanka Trump

Dooku chose his next words carefully. "Qui-Gon returned from Tatooine with a former slave boy. According to the boy's mother, the boy had no father. — James Luceno

I could not bear to think that I wrote a five-hundred page novel just because I needed to love my father. — Pat Conroy

My father calls acting 'a state of permanent retirement with short spurts of work.' — Chris Pine

My father used to be away for months at a time, and he'd never leave any money for food, so my brother and I had to go out and nick it. — Norman Wisdom

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker. — Alan Sugar

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. — George Bernard Shaw

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too. — Caroline Kennedy