I think there's nothing better than laughing in life, so that's nice, to be thought of as someone who can make someone laugh. It's 'cause I think life is hard. You know, my dad was a really silly man. A great Irish silly man. And that's fine.
~ Joan Cusack
But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
~ Sidney Poitier
I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.
~ Halle Berry
My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
The child is father of the man.
~ William Wordsworth
My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man.'
~ Josh Charles
If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.
~ Larry Elder
Wear what you want to wear. Do what you want to do. Be who you are. Pick out your own clothes. Be a man. And if that's too much to ask, as it almost always is for me, think of someone you consider to be a man and pretend to be like him. I pretend to be like my dad.
~ Lyle Lovett
The only advantage to being a middle-aged man is that when you put on a jacket and tie, you're the Scary Dad. Never mind that no one has had an actually scary dad since 1966. The visceral fear remains.
~ P. J. O'rourke
Dad entered the Second World War like any other man, trying to do the right thing.
~ Ridley Scott
My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.
~ Jo Brand
In my heart, I'm just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I'm not a rich man.
~ Terry Pratchett
My career plan at this point is 'Ice Age 5' through '10,' and even '12,' and 'Spider Man' - you know, basically I'd be Emma Stone's dad for the rest of my career. I really don't have any problem doing that.
~ Denis Leary
I adore my dad. He's a 78-year-old man and my inspiration.
~ Shakira
My old man tried to force on me a notion of what it was to be a 'man.' And it destroyed my dad.
~ Sam Shepard
My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.
~ Anthony Hopkins
I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office.
~ Harrison Ford
I'm going to take care of the man I'm with. I grew up in a household where my mum takes care of my dad - she cooks, she does everything - and that's the kind of girl I am.
~ Nicole Scherzinger
These things were happening in my life where I was like, 'Man, I wish my pops was here to see this.' I never had those thoughts before fame, when my life was just a regular life. I wasn't saying, 'I wish my dad could be around and see me working at Applebee's.'
~ Kid Cudi
I'm lucky to have my dad in my life. He's very brilliant, I think he's really a smart man, and he's a kind guy.
~ Cody Horn
No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.
~ Margaret Turnbull
Without ethics, man has no future. This is to say, mankind without them cannot be itself. Ethics determine choices and actions and suggest difficult priorities.
~ John Berger
Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.
~ Bob Marley
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace the savage races throughout the world.
~ Charles Darwin
The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man and a dog. The man will be there to feed the dog. The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment.
~ Warren Bennis
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
~ Sylvia Plath
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
~ Herbert Spencer
I have been judged to be a pessimist but what abyss of ignorance and low egoism is not hidden in one who thinks that Man is the god of himself and that his future can only be triumphant?
~ Eugenio Montale
Every man has his own destiny: the only imperative is to follow it, to accept it, no matter where it leads him.
~ Henry Miller
My future's about trying to be a better man.
~ Terrence Howard
Reactionary: a man walking backwards with his face to the future.
~ Aneurin Bevan
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.
~ Antoine Rivarol
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
~ Frederick Henry Hedge
Man can and must prevent the tragedy of famine in the future instead of merely trying with pious regret to salvage the human wreckage of the famine, as he has so often done in the past.
~ Norman Borlaug
The man of the future may, and even must, do things impossible in the past and acquire new motor variations not given by heredity.
~ G. Stanley Hall
The man who comes up with a means for doing or producing almost anything better, faster or more economically has his future and his fortune at his fingertips.
~ J. Paul Getty
A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
~ Bernard Baruch
Tomorrow is no man's gift.
~ Gilbert Parker
