Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jada Pinkett Smith

What makes Will the best father in the world to me is that he's there, not just there in a way that's traditional. The emotional support he offers his children is immeasurable.

Chris Rock

When you have kids, there's no such thing as quality time. There's just time. There's no, 'Ooh, his graduation's better than going to the mall.' It's all kind of equal. Changing her diaper and her winning a contest - it's all good.

Chris Martin

Men should always change diapers. It's a very rewarding experience. It's mentally cleansing. It's like washing dishes, but imagine if the dishes were your kids, so you really love the dishes.

Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

I'm always going to love my father.

George Saunders

He was a father. That's what a father does.Eases the burdens of those he loves. Saves the ones he loves from painful last images that might endure for a lifetime.

Friedrich Nietzsche

What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

George W. Bush

I had watched Dad climb into the biggest arena and succeed. I wanted to find out if I had what it took to join him.

Eugene Mirman

I don't have a kid, but I think that I would be a good father, especially if my baby liked to go out drinking.

Euripides

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

Homer

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

Starhawk

The symbolism of the Goddess is not a parallel structure to the symbolism of God the Father. The Goddess does not rule the world. She is the world. Manifest in each of us, She can be known internally by every indivdual, in all her magnificent diversity.

Kazuo Ishiguro

I used to think when I was in my teens I was very different from my father, but now I see that what we do is probably quite similar.

As a father, I wish he would have stopped.

That picture that they showed with the father, that is not Elian. That hair is not Elian's.

Dylan Thomas

the land of my fathers . . . . I leave it to my fathers.

The new generation of fathers is interested in doing this, and fathers are taking more time to be with their children.

Euripides

Noble fathers have noble children.

George Herbert

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.

Hugh Jackman

Becoming a father, I think it inevitably changes your perspective of life. I don't get nearly enough sleep. And the simplest things in life are completely satisfying. I find you don't have to do as much, like you don't go on as many outings.

Jack Baker

Every dad, if he takes time out of his busy life to reflect upon his fatherhood, can learn ways to become an even better dad.

Aidan Quinn

I want to do a lot more roles like I did in 'This Is My Father,'

Charles Manson

I started, 'In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit ... '

Louisa May Alcott

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

John Green

I'm so proud of you that it makes me proud of me. I hope you know that.

John Green

The nature of impending fatherhood is that you are doing something that you're unqualified to do, and then you become qualified while doing it.

Jon Stewart

Don't confuse [Father's Day] with Valentine's Day, and here's why. Boy, will you creep him out. I can just tell you from last year, uh, even if they do like chocolate, they don't want it from their son.

Jon Stewart

Fatherhood is great because you can ruin someone from scratch.

Quentin Crisp

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

Pope John XXIII

It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.

Naveen Jain

Being a father has been, without a doubt, my greatest source of achievement, pride and inspiration. Fatherhood has taught me about unconditional love, reinforced the importance of giving back and taught me how to be a better person.

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.