It would have been nice to have been able to communicate…

I never liked my father. He really was a dullard and misanthrope. My mother and he were married for 22, years and it was…

— Edmund White

I see my husband and the way he is with his daughters, responsive and alive and sensitive in ways my father would have liked…

— Lisa Brennan-Jobs

I liked my father's work. But above all I liked the idea of doing something concrete and useful. Building a house is a metaphor…

— Javier Zanetti

Trevanion wrapped his arm around his son's neck like shepherd's hook and dragged him along playfully. when he let go, Finnikin thought he would…

— Melina Marchetta

“Is your father really evil?” I heard myself ask. “Yes.” “Because he drank, did drugs?” “No, honey. Because God made him that way, and…

— Lisa Gardner

I liked my father a lot, but I didn't see him very often because my mother was bitter about him. He remarried, and I…

— Stephen Sondheim

“Serafina said, 'Have you been married, Mr Scoresby? Have you any children?' 'No, ma'am, I have no child, though I would have liked to…

— Philip Pullman

I remember Mr. Mayer very well. He sort of liked to be the father - no, he liked to be treated like you thought…

— Jackie Cooper

Oscar Hammerstein was a surrogate father. I liked my father a lot, he was a swell fellow, but I didn’t see him very often…

— Stephen Sondheim

“This was the first time I noticed it, the inevitable space between father and man.”

— Karen Thompson Walker

Any man can be a father; not any man can be a dad.

— Rachel Dolezal

My father is a man with a great capacity for love and a huge heart, which has led him to be somewhat of a…

— Jake Busey

My father was the only man I ever knew who really loved me unselfishly, who never used me for personal gain.

— Jayne Mansfield

“[My father,] A man who had been taught only to destroy found it hard to create.”

— Nadia Hashimi

A father is a man who fails every day.

— Michael Chabon