I love my father as the stars – he’s a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart – Adabella Radici.

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing – Aldous Huxley.

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was – Anne Sexton.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf – Bertrand Russell.

Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope – Bill Cosby.

My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won’t wait-you can kick their ass right now – Cameron Diaz.

Why are men reluctant to become fathers? They aren’t through being children – Cindy Garner.

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it – Clarence Budington Kelland.

In peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons – Croesus.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again – Enid Bagnold.

To be a successful father there’s one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don’t look at it for the first two years – Ernest Hemingway.

One father is more than a hundred Schoolmasters – George Herbert.

We never know the love of our parents for us till we have become parents – Henry Ward Beecher.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family — the provider for all, and the enemy of all – J. August Strindberg.

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

When the swords flash let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you – Julius Caesar.

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

My father was often angry when I was most like him – Lillian Hellman.

My father was very strong. I don’t agree with a lot of the ways he brought me up. I don’t agree with a lot of his values, but he did have a lot of integrity, and if he told us not to do something, he didn’t do it either – Madonna.

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents – Margaret Mead.

My father was always getting excited about something. It’s genetically inside me somewhere – Nicolas Cage.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too – Peter De Vries.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself – Publilius Syrus.

I’m so ugly – My father carries around a picture of the kid who came with his wallet – Rodney Dangerfield.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance – Ruth E. Renkel.

The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother – Theodore Hesburgh.

Sons are for fathers the twice-told tale – Victoria Secunda.

It is a wise father that knows his own child – William Shakespeare.

Father! – to God himself we cannot give a holier name – William Wordsworth.