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.
~ Naveen Jain
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.
~ Kent Nerburn
One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.
~ George Herbert
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.
~ Mark Wahlberg
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.'
~ Michael Jordan
It is a wise father that knows his own child.
~ William Shakespeare
You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
~ Robert Frost
I would want my legacy to be that I was a great son, father and friend.
~ Dante Hall
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
~ Victor Hugo
I'm a strong person, I'm a strong family man, I'm a strong husband and a strong father.
~ David Beckham
I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.
~ Bo Jackson
I admire my father greatly.
~ Kojo Annan
I have a Father's Day every day.
~ Dennis Banks
A good father believes that he does wisely to encourage enterprise, productive skill, prudent self-denial, and judicious expenditure on the part of his son.
~ William Graham Sumner
I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much.
~ Hedy Lamarr
One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity. We had a bit of a rollercoaster life with some really challenging financial periods. He was always unshaken, completely tranquil, the same ebullient, laughing, jovial man.
~ Ben Okri
I decided in my life that I would do nothing that did not reflect positively on my father's life.
~ Sidney Poitier
Being a father helps me be more responsible... you see more things than you've ever seen.
~ Kid Rock
To me, having kids is the ultimate job in life. I want to be most successful at being a good father.
~ Nick Lachey
We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.
~ Matthew Modine
I would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
~ Mike Myers
I'm always going to love my father.
~ Floyd Mayweather
This is the price you pay for having a great father. You get the wonder, the joy, the tender moments - and you get the tears at the end, too.
~ Harlan Coben
We looked up to our father. He still is much greater than us.
~ Wynton Marsalis
In our house, Mother's Day is every day. Father's Day, too. In our house, parents count. They do important work and that work matters. One day just doesn't cut for us.
~ Margaret Heffernan
I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it.
~ Sammy Davis
When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.
~ Jennifer Grant
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 Gurian
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
~ Maurice Sendak
I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.
~ Bob Beckel
My father was an electrical engineer who worked at Westinghouse in Pittsburgh. When I was growing up, my mother wrote humor columns for the local paper. She was the Erma Bombeck of Murrysville, Pa.
~ Jason Kilar
My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
~ Naomi Shihab Nye
The first time I saw nitroglycerine was in the beginning of the Crimean War. Professor Zinin in St. Petersburg exhibited some to my father and me, and struck some on an anvil to show that only the part touched by the hammer exploded without spreading.
~ Alfred Nobel
We lived in a tall, narrow Victorian house, which my parents had bought very cheaply during the war, when everyone thought London was going to be bombed flat. In fact, a V-2 rocket landed a few houses away from ours. I was away with my mother and sister at the time, but my father was in the house.
~ Stephen Hawking
My father wanted to be a hero. He went to the Air Force Academy, was valedictorian, and then he found himself strafing villagers in Vietnam in a war he didn't want to be in and didn't understand. He was extremely conflicted about the line where he went from being the good guy to possibly being the bad guy.
~ Patty Jenkins
I was one of those children forced into fighting at the age of 13, in my country Sierra Leone, a war that claimed the lives of my mother, father and two brothers. I know too well the emotional, psychological and physical burden that comes with being exposed to violence as a child or at any age for that matter.
~ Ishmael Beah
My father was an immigrant who literally walked across Europe to get out of Russia. He fought in World War I. He was wounded in action. My father was a great success even though he never had money. He was a very determined man, a great role model.
~ Arlen Specter
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
~ E. B. White
My brother and sister are both older than I am and were born before my father went off to World War I.
~ Douglass North
My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories - not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my father's generation. It's a kind of inheritance, the memory of it.
~ Haruki Murakami
