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.
Joel Osteen

A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station.
Bill Cosby

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.
Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.
Bill Cosby

When one has not had a good father, one must create one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Love matches, so called, have illusion for their father and need for their mother.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Whoever does not have a good father should procure one.
Friedrich Nietzsche

My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now.
John F. Kennedy

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Groucho Marx

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.
W. C. Fields

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.
William Shakespeare

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
William Shakespeare

I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.
William Shakespeare

I bet after seeing us, George Washington would sue us for calling him "father."
Will Rogers

The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless.
Anais Nin

I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.
Anais Nin

I just wish I could understand my father.
Michael Jackson

Yes, and I had pimples so badly it used to make me so shy. I used not to look at myself. I'd hide my face in the dark, I wouldn't want to look in the mirror and my father teased me and I just hated it and I cried everyday.
Michael Jackson

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.
Robert Frost

The father is always a Republican toward his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.
Robert Frost