“When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.”
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“No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.”
“Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.”
“Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever.”
“What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money.”
“I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well.”
“My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow.”
“I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into.”
“I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is.'”
“Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.”
“I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!”
“Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.”
“My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.'”
“When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range.”
“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.'”
“I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through.”
“Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin.”
“Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun.”
“Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right.”
“I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts.”
“My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.”
“Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows.”
“I always wanted what Mom and Dad had.”
“My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support.”