Dad and Fatherhood Quotes

"All the awards in the world, you can get into all the nightclubs, they'll send you the nicest clothes. Nothing better than walking into your dad's restaurant and seeing a smile on his face and knowing that your mom and dad and your sister are real proud of you."

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

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."

"As a five-year-old kid, I used to sit in front of the TV - I never missed 'Dukes of Hazzard,' not once. It was me and my dad's show."

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."

"Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful."

"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father."

"But the love of adventure was in father's blood."

"But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives."

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

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows."

"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten."

"Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day."

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

"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."

"Humans have voids, and you need things to fill voids... I didn't have a dad to fill that male model void, so when I heard Eminem or freaking seen Dave Chapelle, that's what I gravitated to."

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"

"I always used to listen to quite a bit of classical music because my dad liked it, and if you've got any ear for music at all you have to enjoy Mozart."

"I am a product of nepotism. I don't think I would have had the profession that I'm in currently... if it wasn't for my dad."

"I do think my old fella wasn't much of a... I don't remember him ever being a 'dad' dad. He was too busy working. It was a hard life, man."

"I don't think my dad ever raised his voice to my mother or to me, ever."

"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'."

"I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries."

"I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We're African-American, and we work together as a family, so people assume we're like the Jacksons. But I didn't have parents using me to get out of a bad situation."

"I have always had the feeling I could do anything and my dad told me I could. I was in college before I found out he might be wrong."

"I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy."

"I look for strong people. I don't like people who'll say yes to everything I might bring up. I want people who can argue and disagree and have a point of view that's reflected in the magazine. My dad believed in the cult of personality. He brought great writers and columnists to 'The Standard.'"

"I love being a dad. I just love it."

"I love my daddy. My daddy's everything. I hope I can find a man that will treat me as good as my dad."

"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."

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."

"I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect."

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

"I really love Linkin Park, and I loved Chester Bennington, and it is horrible what happened to him. I grew up listening to him because my dad would make these mixtapes with a lot of different artists - Linkin Park, Avril Lavigne, The Beatles, Sarah McLachlan, I just really loved Linkin Park, and their production is really sick."

"I started off as many fathers do. I enjoyed the good bits, but I was wary of the responsibility. But now I love being a dad."

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

"I think my dad is the only Arabic descendent who is an unsuccessful businessman."

"I think, if I had a dad, I would have went the normal college route. I'm so stoked my life panned out how it was."

"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."

"I was always a kid trying to make a buck. I borrowed a dollar from my dad, went to the penny candy store, bought a dollar's worth of candy, set up my booth, and sold candy for five cents apiece. Ate half my inventory, made $2.50, gave my dad back his dollar."

"I was born to a dad who was born in the South Bronx while the Bronx was burning, while landlords were committing arson to their own buildings."

"I was raised in the greatest of homes... just a really great dad, and I miss him so much... he was a good man, a real simple man... Very faithful, always loved my mom, always provided for the kids, and just a lot of fun."

"I wasn't born to a wealthy or powerful family - mother from Puerto Rico, dad from the South Bronx."

"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."

"I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed."

"I'm dying to be a great dad one day, whenever that day comes."

"I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had."