“Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along.”
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“My dad was kind of a pool shark and had a Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin thing going on. I've always been fascinated by the fifties because of him. There was a hip, cool, anything-goes atmosphere back then, but looking good was still a priority.”
“Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.”
“I get around OK with a toolbox. As a kid, I picked up skills following my dad through the oil fields of Oklahoma and West Texas. My wife Janine is hard to impress, but she does think it's cool when I fix things around the house.”
“When you're nearing 35, going, 'Hey Dad, I can't make these payments,' just isn't cool.”
“I wanted to be an actress. I think it had a lot to do with being a kid and watching how every time my dad would stand up to talk people would applaud... that was pretty cool.”
“It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father.”
“My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him.”
“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.”
“I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.”
“I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.”
“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.”
“Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.”
“My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.”
“I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.”
“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
“Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of.”
“A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.”
“I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land.”
“A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.”
“It is much easier to become a father than to be one.”
“There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him.”
“I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father.”
“The child is father of the man.”