Quotes About Father

America used to live by the motto "Father Knows Best." Now we're lucky if "Father Knows He Has Children." We've become a nation of sperm donors and baby daddies.

My father was a small claims court jester.

I thought how proud I am to be standing up beside my dad. Never did it occur to me that he would become the gist for cartoonists.

Today's Father Day and we're giving you a tie, it's not much you know, it's just our way of showing you, you're a regular guy.

My family were hitters. If you made them laugh, they didn't hit you. My dad wouldn't hit me if I got him with humor right between the eyes.

My dad was nothing but a bingo call.

Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....

You guys gotta get a license to drive a Geo, but any doofus with a few good swimmers can be a father.

But he didn't have to listen to his father. Taking after your father was optional, wasn't it?

(talking about his father) 230 pounds of nickels in Sears slacks.

There's my baby!" I cried, quite carried away, "There's my poochiekins!"..."Sadie, " My dad said firmly, "Please do not refer to the devourer of souls as 'poochiekins'.

Children throw tantrums because they've imagined their 'father in heaven' does so. And because, their inherited religious book has, in written, shown them so.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

With his eyes and those hands there won't be a woman safe in all the world when he starts hunting after the ladies.' 'Courting, dear,' my father corrected gently. 'Semantics,' she shrugged.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

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

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.

I began to learn what poverty meant. It was burnt in my heart then that my father had to beg for work and there came the resolve that I would cure that when I got to be a man.

The worst misfortune that can happen to an ordinary man is to have an extraordinary father.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won't wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she'll hear you.

It is the duty of every father... to write fairy tales for his children.

Ask your father to convince you, not to go your way. You will win, i bet.

It's a sheer-madness for a father not to see his son greater than him

What a broad world to roam in, what a sea to swim in is this God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.