Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Euripides

Noble fathers have noble children.

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.

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.

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.

Frank Abagnale

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

Joseph Addison

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

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.

John Aubrey

Sir Walter, being strangely surprised and put out of his countenance at so great a table, gives his son a damned blow over the face. His son, as rude as he was, would not strike his father, but strikes over the face the gentleman that sat next to him and said, "Box about: twill come to my father anon."

Oscar Wilde

The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

Olive Schreiner

Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.

Epictetus

Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant.

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.

Tim McGraw

I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance.

Tiger Woods

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

Ron Reagan

He never stopped wanting to save the world.

Gustave Flaubert

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

Pete Rose

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

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.

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.

Samuel Johnson

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

Wally Schirra

You don't raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they'll turn out to be heroes, even if it's just in your own eyes.

Steve Martin

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

Spike Milligan

My father confused me. From the ages of one to seven, I thought my name was Jesus Christ!

Umberto Eco

I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.

Steve Young

My dad, like any coach, has always stressed the fundamentals. He taught me responsibility, accountability, and the importance of hard work.