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Poverty may be the mother of crime, but lack of good sense is the father. — Jean De La Bruyere

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

My father is schizophrenia, but he's good people. — Stewart Francis

The curse of fatherhood is distance, and the good fathers spend their lives trying to overcome it. — Steve Farrar

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

My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example. — Ted Danson

I say to all fathers - be as good as you can be- because your sons and daughters will follow in your footsteps. — Duane Chapman

I wonder where love really is. Good feelings. Happiness. They're someplace, I know. I feel that. But without Father and Mother, how do I get there? — Susan Shaw

He will not go behind his father's saying,
And he likes having thought of it so well
He says again, Good fences make good neighbors. — Robert Frost

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

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing. — Cesare Pavese

The result was magnificent ... I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife. — Arthur Rubinstein

I feel so good singing songs that I sang with my father. — Mavis Staples

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

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

What good has impatience ever brought? It has only served as the mother of mistakes and the father of irritation. — Steve Maraboli

Father used to say it's wrong to hurt even bad people. Because they don't know any better, and because bad people sometimes become good." "Not — Khaled Hosseini

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

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

Father Brown: ... one can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place — G.K. Chesterton

It feels good to have parents, but it feels even better to not have an evil one. — M.F. Moonzajer

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts. — Mary Ellen Chase

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 fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative. — Anthony Kiedis

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

Thanks to my father, we were always in good horses. — Facundo Pieres

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

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

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

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

My father Big Max told me many years ago that 'anything you are good at will contribute to your happiness'. Great advice. — Max Walker

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

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

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

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

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

My mother is very good in Scrabble. In Boggle, my father is probably better. — Chelsea Clinton

My father went to work every day, and it's my job to go to work, too. Some days will be good, some won't be so good, but I have to go to work. — Ted Danson

16In the same way, let your light shine before others, so n that [2] they may see your good works and o give glory to your Father who is in heaven. — Anonymous

I follow my father's philosphy; 'Do what is good, do what is right, and God will take care of the rest.' — Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

The father of every good work is discontent, and its mother is diligence. — Lajos Kassak

My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more. — Pete Rose

Fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate. — Seth Grahame-Smith

The moral code which was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for our children. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

We must remember that we are sons (and daughters) of God, not because we are so good but because God is that good. — Paul Silway

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

One thing I am certain of is that, if I have done anything good in music, it was, first, because of my father, and second, because of my wife. — Charles Ives

It occurred to me then that I was the opposite of my father. Because I was very, very good at destroying things. — Maggie Stiefvater

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

Father said all good things in life were fragile and easily lost - he — Khaled Hosseini

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

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

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

Let your first 'good morning' be to your Heavenly Father. — Karl G. Maeser

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'm lucky to have very good genes. My mother was so tiny she was almost bird-like, and my father was tall and lean. Both lived until their early 80s. — Cherie Lunghi

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

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

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

How much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him! Matthew 7:11 — Beth Moore

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead. — James Joyce

My father's rich, my momma's good looking. Right? And I can play the Blues. I've never suffered and don't intend to suffer. — Miles Davis

Our prayer must be, Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it. — James MacDonald

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

Polite Conversation Why, everyone one as they like; as the good woman said when she kissed her cow. — Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

Like father, like son: every good tree maketh good fruits. — William Langland

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

But now I thought of Father, and it felt good to know I could still feel fear. — Mark Lawrence

You are the reason I want to be good, the reason I have seen the evil in my father. You make me good. You make me whole — Rebecca Ethington

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

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

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

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

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

I have good genes. My father is Danish and my mother is Irish and Native American. They both have good skin. — Virginia Madsen

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

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their
fathers. These laws were good. — Chief Joseph

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

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

He still didn't think I was good enough for you."
"No father thinks any man is good enough for his daughter. — Nicholas Sparks