“ A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. ”
“ It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life. ”
“ As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind. ”
“ My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem. ”
“ An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her. ”
“ My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad. ”
“ When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed. ”
“ She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon. ”
“ A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. ”
“ My Father had a profound influence on me. He was a lunatic. ”
“ As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost. ”
“ The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.' ”
“ The answer to old age is to keep one's mind busy and to go on with one's life as if it were interminable. I always admired Chekhov for building a new house when he was dying of tuberculosis. ”
“ The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf. ”
“ 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. ”
“ When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years. ”
“ I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries. ”
“ My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States. ”
“ Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career. ”
“ My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house. ”