To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.
Martin Luther

I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.
Sigmund Freud

I remember the time I was kidnapped and they sent a piece of my finger to my father. He said he wanted more proof.
Rodney Dangerfield

My father carries around the picture of the kid who came with his wallet.
Rodney Dangerfield

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

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers - but never blame yourself. It's never your fault. But it's always your fault, because if you wanted to change you're the one who has got to change.
Katharine Hepburn

How pleasant it is for a father to sit at his child's board. It is like an aged man reclining under the shadow of an oak which he has planted.
Voltaire

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.
Alexander the Great

A son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo Machiavelli

We are celebrating the feast of the Eternal Birth which God the Father has borne and never ceases to bear in all eternity... But if it takes not place in me, what avails it? Everything lies in this, that it should take place in me.
Meister Eckhart

If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.
James A. Baldwin

President Bush is supporting Arnold but a lot of Republicans are not, because he is actually quite liberal. Karl Rove said if his father wasn't a Nazi, he wouldn't have any credibility with conservatives at all.
Bill Maher

Life is a corrupting process from the time a child learns to play his mother off against his father in the politics of when to go to bed; he who fears corruption fears life.
Saul Alinsky

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.
Janis Joplin

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.
Harry S. Truman

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
Lee Iacocca

My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
Spike Milligan

Just talk to me as a father - not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?
Joe Biden

To depend upon a profession is a less odious form of slavery than to depend upon a father.
Virginia Woolf