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My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, 'You're tearing up the grass.' 'We're not raising grass,' Dad would reply. 'We're raising boys.' - Harmon Killebrew. Now, if you know anything about fathers, you wouldn’t find it too difficult to agree with Harmon Killebrew, for fathers, contrary to popular belief, are pretty good at raising kids. While the world goes about doting on mothers, fathers and their love almost always gets sidelined. However, here’s giving fathers all the acknowledgement and respect they rightfully deserve. Read on for a saucer full of famous quotations and sayings on dads.

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My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not.

Indira Gandhi

If the new American father feels bewildered and even defeated, let him take comfort from the fact that whatever he does in any fathering situation has a fifty percent chance of being right.

Bill Cosby

Nothing I've ever done has given me more joys and rewards than being a father to my children.

Bill Cosby

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

Bill Cosby

I have two children and they're young yet but all of the children that I know really inspire me.

Val Kilmer

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Brian Tracy

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

Angelina Jolie

In peace, sons bury their fathers. In war, fathers bury their sons.

Herodotus

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

Sigmund Freud

Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

William Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

William Shakespeare

Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers.

Aldous Huxley

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

Dylan Thomas

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

George Eliot

He was definitely a father figure for all of us. Once you were a Giant, you were always a Giant.

George Martin

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 Sandler

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

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

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 Berry

Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents.

Margaret Mead

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

You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father's.

Robert Frost

Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are.

Louisa May Alcott

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 Armstrong

Don't forget Mother's Day. Or as they call it in Beverly Hills, Dad's Third Wife Day.

Jay Leno

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

Jim Valvano

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

Gloria Steinem

The principal end both of my father and of myself in the conquest of India... has been the propagation of the holy Catholic faith.

Ignatius Loyola

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

Imelda Marcos

My father was a soccer player. All my friends played basketball though, so I stuck with basketball.

Steve Nash

Family... the home of all social evil, a charitable institution for comfortable women, an anchorage for house-fathers, and a hell for children.

J. August Strindberg

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

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

Laurence Sterne

A dramatic thing, the first time you stand up to your dad.

Lenny Kravitz

I was plunged into what was known as the debutante social whirl. This was one of the ways fathers justified their own hard work and sacrifices.

Gene Tierney

When my father passed away two or three years ago, I didn't listen to music for four days - that's a long time for me.

Carlos Santana

And my dad wanted me to play the trumpet because that's what he liked. His idol was Louis Armstrong. My dad thought my teeth came together in a way that was perfect for playing the trumpet.

Jackson Browne

My father died when I was 4 years old, so I can't really say anything about his hearing.

George Kennedy

I knew real show business from my father, who had been an actor since he left the world of boxing.

James Earl Jones

Hey, my baby fetches me beers, and she's only 4 months old!... yeah, I'm a proud Dad!

James Hetfield

I am determined that my children shall be brought up in their father's religion, if they can find out what it is.

Charles Lamb

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Augusten Burroughs

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

Giuseppe Mazzini

This guy is a bastard. He took advantage of my daughter.

Jane Addams

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

Quentin Crisp

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

Janis Joplin

My earliest memories are the best. I always try to remember the good times when Daddy was alive.

Jayne Mansfield

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

Jean Paul Sartre

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, "You're tearing up the grass"; "We're not raising grass," Dad would reply. "We're raising boys".

Harmon Killebrew

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Harold Coffin

I love my father as the stars - he's a bright shining example and a happy twinkling in my heart.

Terri Guillemets

Safe, for a child, is his father's hand, holding him tight.

Marion C. Garretty

My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad. That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.

Jessica Simpson

I want to thank my mum, my daddy, my coach, my teacher, everybody in my life.

Jet Li

My dad spent his whole life getting into fights for telling what he believed to be the truth. Basically it comes from my dad-and he's screaming right-wing, so there you are.

Thom Yorke

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

Jim Carrey

I would say my greatest achievement in life right now - my greatest achievement period is - and I'm still trying to achieve it - is to be a wonderful father to my kids.

Bo Jackson

A father may turn his back on his child, brothers and sisters may become inveterate enemies, husbands may desert their wives, wives their husbands. But a mother's love endures through all.

Washington Irving

The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.

Clara Barton

No fathers or mothers think their own children ugly.

Miguel de Cervantes

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

Mike Myers

Well we know the whole situation's full of lies, Dad. That's just the way it is.

John Gotti

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

Rod Stewart

I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.

David Icke

I just thank my father and mother, my lucky stars, that I had the advantage of an education in the humanities.

David McCullough

Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.

David Rockefeller

When my dad divorced my mom it was kind of like him leaving me also.

Nicole Richie

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Venus Williams

The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.

Johnny Depp

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Stevie Nicks

Until you have a son of your own... you will never know the joy, the love beyond feeling that resonates in the heart of a father as he looks upon his son.

Kent Nerburn

I don't think words can comfort at this time. Just love and support of his family, and for Will to know that millions of people loved his father and mother.

George Lopez

Therefore I do pray and entreat you in the name of Jesus Christ to do so much as to make my being here in Japan known to my poor wife, in a manner a widow and my two children fatherless; which thing only is my greatest grief of heart and conscience.

Will Adams

I'm crazy about my father, he's an amazing man, a real adventurer. He took us with him to travel all over the world. We were in places that were so remote, that white people hardly ever reach them.

Peta Wilson

“I never know what to get my father for his birthday. I gave him a hundred dollars and said, 'Buy yourself something that will make your life easier.' So he went out and bought a present for my mother.

Rita Rudner

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.

Robert Greene

But the love of adventure was in father's blood.

Buffalo Bill

If she has a good, strong, reliable father image, which is hard to find these days, that will be her image of men, probably for the rest of her life. She'll look for a husband who embodies those qualities.

Robert Johnson

My father had a brilliant scholastic record in high school and was awarded a college scholarship. Unfortunately he had to turn it down so that he could continue to support his family.

Tony Visconti

My father, who had lost a brother, fighting on the Austrian side in World War I, was a committed pacifist.

Walter Kohn

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