Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pete Rose

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

Gustave Flaubert

The most important thing in the world is to hold your soul aloft.

Laurance Rockefeller

Father taught us that opportunity and responsibility go hand in hand. I think we all act on that principle; on the basic human impulse that makes a man want to make the best of what's in him and what's been given him.

Mike Myers

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

Mark Wahlberg

I pray to be a good servant to God, a father, a husband, a son, a friend, a brother, an uncle, a good neighbor, a good leader to those who look up to me, a good follower to those who are serving God and doing the right thing.

Publilius Syrus

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

Kid Rock

Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.

Lillian Hellman

My father was often angry when I was most like him.

Sidney Poitier

I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.

Tom Cruise

I'll never forget the moment I became a dad. It's hard to describe-that level of responsibility, the desire to give such joy, the clarity: Nothing is more important than this.

Marlene Dietrich

A king, realizing his incompetence, can either delegate or abdicate his duties. A father can do neither. If only sons could see the paradox, they would understand the dilemma.

Maria Sharapova

Without my dad, I wouldn't be here.

Michael Gurian

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

Michael Chabon

A father is a man who fails every day.

Michael Jordan

My father used to say that it's never too late to do anything you wanted to do. And he said, 'You never know what you can accomplish until you try.'

Joseph Addison

That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?

Jake Gyllenhaal

Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it's not because I'm so different from you either. It's because I'm the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man as you.

Luther Vandross

My father would lift me high. And dance with my mother and me and then. Spin me around til I fell asleep. Then up the stairs he would carry me and I knew for sure I was loved.

Ray Romano

If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now.

Woody Allen

I don't know what I'm doing, but my incompetence has never stopped my enthusiasm.

William Wordsworth

Father! - to God himself we cannot give a holier name.

William J. Clinton

During the sole argument we had when [Chelsea] was in high school, the subject of which I don't even remember, I looked at her and said, 'As long as you're in this house, being president is my second most important job'.

Vance Havner

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

Will Arnett

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day.

Will Arnett

I want my son to wear a helmet 24 hours a day. If it was socially acceptable I'd be the first one to have my kid in a full helmet and like a cage across his face mask.

Woody Harrelson

I remember my daughter Deni coming along, and she was so pure and caring of everybody and everything. And somehow, this little being managed to get around all the obstacles - the gun turrets, the walls, the moats, the sentries - that were wrapped around my heart. My heart at that time needed her ... I think it's the best thing going, parenthood.

Wendell Phillips

To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.

Wade Boggs

Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.

Will Smith

There's so much negative imagery of black fatherhood. I've got tons of friends that are doing the right thing by their kids, and doing the right thing as a father - and how come that's not as newsworthy?

Joseph Joubert

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Kent Nerburn

It is much easier to become a father than to be one.

Kent Nerburn

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Samuel Johnson

There must always be a struggle between a father and son, while one aims at power and the other at independence.