“My father always told me, ‘Find a job you love and you’ll never have to work a day in your life.'”
Jim Fox
“Being a father helps me be more responsible… you see more things than you’ve ever seen.”
Kid Rock
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived.”
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
“The most important thing my father taught me is that when you give your word, you keep your word, no matter what.”
Larry Winget
“My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person: He believed in me.”
Jim Valvano
“I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.”
John F. Kennedy
“Just to show my dad that I think he’s number one, I bought him a urinal cake for his birthday.”
Jarod Kintz
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
Billy Graham
“A good father is one of the most unsung, unpraised, unnoticed, and yet one of the most valuable assets in our society.”
Billy Graham
“Everything I ever learnt as a small boy came from my father, and I never found anything he ever told me to be wrong or worthless. The simple lessons he taught me are as sharp and clear in my mind as if I had heard them only yesterday.”
Irving Pichel, How Green Was My Valley
“Every day, my daddy told me the same thing. ‘Once a task is just begun, never leave it till it’s done. Be the labor great or small, do it well or not at all.'”
Quincy Jones
“I couldn’t catch a ball if it had Elmer’s Glue all over it. And my father had to be this ex-football star. He didn’t know what to tell his friends, so he told them all I had Polio. On Father’s Day, I used to limp for him.”
Matt West, A Chorus Line
“Dad, I may not be the best, but I come to believe that I got it in me to be somebody in this world. And it’s not because I’m so different from you either. It’s because I’m the same. I mean, I can be just as hard-headed, and just as tough. I only hope I can be as good a man.”
Jake Gyllenhaal, October Sky
“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.”
Joel Osteen
“I’ve had a hard life, but my hardships are nothing against the hardships that my father went through in order to get me to where I started.”
Bartrand Hubbard
“You’ve got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.”
Terry Bradshaw
“I remember when I was like 19 years old and I started a desk calendar company to pay for my first short film, just so I could say one day that my daddy didn’t pay for my first short film. And I really established myself in the film festival world.”
Jason Reitman
“He promised us that everything would be okay. I was a child, but I knew that everything would not be okay. That did not make my father a liar. It made him my father.”
Jonathan Safran Foer
“Behind every great man is a man greater, his father.”
Habeeb Akande
“I talk and talk and talk, and I haven’t taught people in 50 years what my father taught by example in one week.”
Mario Cuomo
“This is my most important role. If I fail at this, I fail at everything.”
Mark Wahlberg
“My daddy expected that my brothers and I and our generation would make the world a better place. He had lived in an America of continual social progress.”
Wynton Marsalis
“I’m very close to my dad. He’s about six inches away right now and snoring in my ears.”
Jarod Kintz
“When I was just a little tyke,
Dave Barry
You showed me how to ride a bike;
And you were sweet to me the day,
I drove your car into the bay;
Dad, I think you’re really grand,
I’m praying for your prostate gland.”
“When I was a kid, I said to my father one afternoon, ‘Daddy, will you take me to the zoo?’ He answered, ‘If the zoo wants you, let them come and get you.'”
Jerry Lewis
“Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again.”
Jimmy Piersal
“My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn.”
Louis Adamic
“I work for a mom and pop business. They’re my mom and pop, and by work I mean they give me an allowance. But that’ll end soon. By age 30, in just a few months, they said it’d be time for me to earn a living. I guess that means they’ll want me to start mowing the lawn.”
Jarod Kintz