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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

Green called Curtis his son. And he was ready to go to war for him, like any good father would. — A.E. Via

It's a little girl named anna, and she doesn't know if she's ready to say good-bye to a father she's never really said hello to. — Pamela Ribon

The mother and the father are the causes of this body; so a man must undergo a thousand troubles in order to do good to them. — Swami Vivekananda

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

Take a good long look at The Lord's Prayer. It's all 'we', 'us' and 'our'. There is no 'me', 'I' or 'mine' anywhere. — Anne Hamilton

A minister stands for Father Peace, but a good one is no stranger to Mother War. — Joe Abercrombie

My parents have always told me to work hard. My father was a friend, a very good friend, but when he needed to be a father, he was. — Jeev Milkha Singh

The only man who can truly handle a woman is a woman, Abban's father had said to him many times before he died. It was good advice. — Peter V. Brett

weeks." "Sounds like a good idea. The police may have options for investigating that your father and — Claire Fogel

I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course! — Diego Della Valle

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father. — Barbra Streisand

That is a definite no-no in the Good Father Handbook. — Carrie Jones

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A good leader will seek the wisdom of others. After all, no man is an island! — Jim George

A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society. — Billy Graham

The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation. — Ronald Reagan

I know what a good man is because I saw it in my father. — Raimond Gaita

You don't need the help of politicians to be a good teacher, Peter. — Audrey Magee

A father's aim is to raise children who themselves raise good citizens. — Nicholas Dawidoff

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

My father taught me a good lesson: Don't get to low when things go wrong. And don't get too high when things are good. — Robert Parish

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

I was in no way ready when my daughter was born. But I want to be a good father to her. — El DeBarge

I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. — Joe Dante

I was a good surfer because we grew up a block from the water, and my father took us to the ocean the way other fathers take their kids to the park. — Jolene Blalock

A boy does not need a father unless he is a good father, but a good father is indispensable. — Stephen King

And you're the son of his youngest. He has no other children. Oh, your father's dead, by the way. Fell off a horse two years ago.'
'Good to know. — Scott Lynch

She was not a writer herself but she was a very good reader, passionate and eclectic in her tastes, and my father had great faith in her judgments. — David Benioff

My father was a very good Boy Scout. He was very skilled with knots, and he showed me how to tie a bow tie. — Bill Nye

Panda gazed at her plastic-bag pregnancy. "Here I am, about to be a father, and the sex wasn't even that good." She fought the urge to apologize. — Susan Elizabeth Phillips

If a father buys his child toffees instead of books for school, it may make for a happy child. But does it make a good father? — Chetan Bhagat

When one has not had a good father, one must create one. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You can only be a good father in relationship to your childhood. — Guillermo Del Toro

As my poor father used to say In 1963, Once people start on all this Art Goodbye, moralitee! And what my father used to say Is good enough for me. — A.P. Herbert

I think I'm a good father, but that's taken a lifetime of experience. — Mike Oldfield

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama. — Jayne Meadows

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes! — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

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

A father gives his child nothing better than a good education — Anonymous

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance. — David Blankenhorn

Career, his accomplishments, his victories, the kind of friend he was, and the kind of father, except her. But she did a good job. Most of the — Danielle Steel

It takes time to be a good father. It takes effort - trying, failing, and trying again. — Tim Hansel

You marry the one who will be a good father, not a good lay. — Tom Cardamone

I'm a good citizen. I'm a good father. I recycle and I masturbate. — Louis C.K.

One thing that prevents a man from being a good father is he hasn't completed being a boy. — Iyanla Vanzant

My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music. — Yoko Ono

the same way, you should be a light for other people. Live so that they will see the good things you do and will praise your Father in heaven. — Max Lucado

I thought about my father. I usually do, when I get that low. He was a good man, a generous man, a hopeless loser. — Jim Butcher

My father was a difficult man. But he was also a good one. — Veronica Roth

I want to trace my father, could you suggest a good marker pen? — Frankie Boyle

The only things that excited her father, the king, more than a good ball were sustainable logging practices — Shannon Hale

I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. — Orson Scott Card

To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father. — Nick Lachey

Is you naturally entitled, then, to a good father? No, only to a father. Is — Epictetus

The best inheritance a father can leave his children is a good example. — John Walter Bratton

My father was a veteran and my mother a schoolteacher. They taught me the value of a good job and an honest day's work. — Stephen Pagliuca

My mother was a good Catholic
she went to mass twice a week at St. Mary's in Richmond, but my father was an Orthodox Eclectic. — Sue Monk Kidd

Perhaps it's natural for a father, for every parent, to see in his child all that's unspoiled and good. — Vaddey Ratner

A father is only capable of giving what he has, and what he knows. A good father gives all of himself that is good. — Vincent Carrella

I hope you grow up to be as good a mother as your father — Robert Rankin

Everything good is the transmutation of something evil: every god has a devil for a father. — Friedrich Nietzsche

A poignant paradox is that sometimes the very desire to be a good mother or father will lead the parent to mistake duty for love. — William Watson Purkey

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him. — Amy Sedaris

They're politicians," her father pointed out dryly. "A good grip on reality isn't part of the job description. — Christopher G. Nuttall

A guy's got to get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father. — Lois Greiman

All my books explore fatherhood. I look at what it means to have a big father figure at the centre: sometimes they're a good father, sometimes bad. — Monique Roffey

The father's role, he says, is to provide the mother with the peace and security she needs to be a good enough mother. — Massimilla Harris

I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day. — Mike Tyson

I've learned much, Father, and this above all: that no station in life is above any other, if it's occupied by someone with a good heart. — Orson Scott Card

I had to get good grades and do well in school - my mother was an assistant principal and my father was a teacher - and they took this very seriously. — Roz Chast

My mother and father told me I was god. I was a good Italian boy who hung out with the same four guys. I was a little god. — Chazz Palminteri

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not enough, but it helps. — Dick Gregory

My father was an immigrant from Austria and he became a lawyer and became a judge and I think he was a good judge. — Mickey Kaus

A good father and a good outlaw can't settle inside the same man. — J-Ax

Anyone could father a child. But a good parent puts his child's needs before his own. A parent should be selfless not selfish. — Penelope Ward

My father was so good-natured and had such a happy disposition. I've always confused him with Jimmy Stewart. So, think Jimmy Stewart. That's my dad. — Jane Pauley

A poet may be a good companion, but, so far as I know, he is ever the worst of fathers. — Irving Bacheller

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

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

I know it's not good for a girl to be without a father these days. But is it any better for a father to be without a daughter? — Gavriel Savit

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife. — John Lithgow

The thing that is my main focus is my family. More than anything, I want to be a good husband to my wife and a good father to my kids. — Rex Hudler

As a father has pity on his children, so has the Lord had pity on us; because He is good, because His mercy endures forever. — Peter J. Arnoudt

He has his father's distinctive good looks, like a badly made crash test dummy. He also smells like a funeral parlor, but that may be incidental. — John Connolly

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit. — Barbara Kingsolver

I led a comfortable life, went to good schools and was privileged in many ways, but my father worked hard. We never considered ourselves rich. — Joseph M. Kyrillos

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father. — Raymond Depardon

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was. — Billy Corgan

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad. — Dwight Gooden

The best way to be a good father to your children is to be a good husband to their mother. — Jay E. Adams

My father was always good enough he never broke a bone, — Tamara White

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day. — Corrie Ten Boom

Hark ye,'said the father, 'a bad-tempered man will never make a good-tempered horse. You've not learned your trade yet, Samson. — Anna Sewell

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband ... I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan. — Mike Tyson

My father was a good man, but he was a con man. He was a wanderer, nomadic. — Danny Aiello

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman. — Arnold Palmer

Not every successful man is a good father. But every good father is a successful man. — Robert Duvall

My father had a good sense of humour about a lot of things, including life, which I think I inherited. — Brian Dennehy

Everyone's unique; no one's ever alike. But my son has the same good cheer as my father. He's capable of making a room happy with a few words. — Jon Voight