Dad

I was built up from my dad more than anyone else.

When my first semester grades came out, my mom and dad told me I wouldn't be playing football.

My dad always said, 'Champ, the measure of a man is not how often he is knocked down, but how quickly he gets up.'

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

No matter how good you are, at some point your kids are gonna have to create their own independence and think that Mom and Dad aren't cool, just to establish themselves. That's what adolescence is about. They're gonna go through that no matter what.

My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.

It was my 16th birthday - my mom and dad gave me my Goya classical guitar that day. I sat down, wrote this song, and I just knew that that was the only thing I could ever really do - write songs and sing them to people.

I have never been jealous. Not even when my dad finished fifth grade a year before I did.

So I go to my first book signing, and these two girls came up and gave me a piece of paper: '10 reasons you should date our dad. He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro. He's a lawyer.' He didn't know what was going on. He didn't even know me. They called him, and he came down and asked me out that day. Now I'm dating their dad!

Watching your husband become a father is really sexy and wonderful.

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

Father or stepfather - those are just titles to me. They don't mean anything.

Being a father, being a friend, those are the things that make me feel successful.

I have never been a material girl. My father always told me never to love anything that cannot love you back.

A working definition of fathering might be this: fathering is the act of guiding a child to behave in ways that lead to the child's becoming a secure child in full, thus increasing his or her chances of being happy and fruitful as a young adult.

My father was the most rational and the most dispassionate of men.

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.

I love the comic opportunities that come up in the context of a father-son relationship.

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.