I am what you made me, Father.

While I was growing up, I wasn't like, 'My father's a rapper, so I'm going to be one, too.'

— Ice Spice

I don't want my kids to grow up with no father like I did. I came to the conclusion a while ago that you…

— Benjamin Carson

My father? A hard drinking man from the 70's. We actually have no pictures of my dad where he is not holding a beer.…

— Christopher Titus

I don't want my kids growing up with the image of God that I had -- Plato's white grandfatherly god -- because that god…

— William P. Young

Grow up? Get herself straightened out? Her mind reeled from the verbal battering. No matter what she did, her father would tell her she…

— Ted Dekker

A parent does not do everything for their kid. A parent that does everything for their kid produces a kid with no self-confidence. If…

— Simon Sinek

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear…

— Victor Hugo

“I don’t know. We all have to bear things, Ari. All of us. Your father has to bear the war and what it did…

— Anonymous

I guess, it's a father's dream for his daughter to be known around the world.

— Liza Soberano

My father longed for a better life for us, and when I was nine he got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast.…

— Katie Melua

“My father called twice and left a voicemail—who does that?”

— Megan Erickson

My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used…

— Don McLean

My embarrassing confession is that my father is a 'Camelot: The Musical' obsessive. So as a child, when we were going to visit relatives…

— Chris Chibnall

(knitting while on a motorcycle) "For several years she knitted in secret (my father would not approve; she was to concentrate on motorcycling and…

— Elizabeth Zimmermann

Of all the people who have affected my life and influenced the choices I've made, none has been more important than my father. I…

— Teddy Atlas