That he delights in the misery of others no man will confess, and yet what other motive can make a father cruel?
Joseph Addison

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards.
Robert Orben

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Bertrand Russell

Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible.
Shia LaBeouf

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
James Joyce

My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
Jay London

I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out.
Jay London

I was brought up in a whorehouse in Peoria. My mother and father lived there and worked there.
Richard Pryor

All the learnin' my father paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and an alphabet at the other.
George Eliot

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Peter De Vries

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.
Denzel Washington

Be able to confide your innermost secrets to your mother and your innermost fears to your father.
Marilyn vos Savant

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.
Jim Valvano

My father had kicked me out of his house at the height of an argument over an opinion difference. He had become so enraged. He told me never to come back, and that was all the severance it took.
Lynette Fromme

My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.
Quentin Crisp

My father always wanted to be the corpse at every funeral, the bride at every wedding and the baby at every christening.
Alice Roosevelt Longworth

And I say the sacred hoop of my people was one of the many hoops that made one circle, wide as daylight and as starlight, and in the center grew one mighty flowering tree to shelter all the children of one mother and one father.
Black Elk

When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.
Black Elk

He was not a runner, my father, but he was quick. I always remember it was very difficult to escape from him when he was angry. If he wanted to beat us he would always catch us. Even me, he could always catch me.
Haile Gebrselassie