Dad quotations

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◆ My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

- Beau Bridges99

◆ I know that I will never find my father in any other man who comes into my life, because it is a void in my life that can only be filled by him.

- Halle Berry99

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

- George Eliot98

◆ My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.

- Chief Joseph98

◆ A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

- Enid Bagnold98

◆ Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.

- Michael Reagan98

◆ A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool.

- Michael Bergin98

◆ I'm a father. It isn't just my life any more. I don't want my kid finding bottles in the house or seeing his father completely smashed.

- Billie Joe Armstrong98

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

- Janis Joplin98

◆ I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

- Adam Sandler98

◆ Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

- Sam Ewing98

◆ My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this.

- Jeff Foxworthy98

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

- Jay London98

◆ My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

- David Rockefeller98

◆ My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem.

- Gwyneth Paltrow98