Family Quotes

"It is easier for a father to have children than for children to have a real father."

"When one has not had a good father, one must create one."

"My father? I never knew him. Never even seen a picture of him."

"I am not ashamed to say that no man I ever met was my father's equal, and I never loved any other man as much."

"Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."

"I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father."

"I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern."

"I just wish I could understand my father."

"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."

"Fathers are biological necessities, but social accidents."

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

"The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf."

"My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad."

"The fundamental defect of fathers, in our competitive society, is that they want their children to be a credit to them."

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

"Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope."

"Babies don't need fathers, but mothers do. Someone who is taking care of a baby needs to be taken care of."

"A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be."

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

"Undeservedly you will atone for the sins of your fathers."

"I pressed my father's hand and told him I would protect his grave with my life. My father smiled and passed away to the spirit land."

"A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again."

"It is much easier to become a father than to be one."

"There's sometimes a weird benefit to having an alcoholic, violent father. He really motivated me in that I never wanted to be anything like him."

"My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States."

"I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father."

"The child is father of the man."

"My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people."

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

"Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted."

"An angry father is most cruel towards himself."

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war."

"My father taught me that the only way you can make good at anything is to practice, and then practice some more."

"When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years."

"I kept my babies fed. I could have dumped them, but I didn't. I decided that whatever trip I was on, they were going with me. You're looking at a real daddy."

"Whenever I fail as a father or husband... a toy and a diamond always works."

"Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?"

"It is impossible to please all the world and one's father."

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

"A father's disappointment can be a very powerful tool."

"It was my father who taught me to value myself. He told me that I was uncommonly beautiful and that I was the most precious thing in his life."

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

"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."

"My father never raised his hand to any one of his children, except in self-defense."

"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."

"I wanted to take up music, so my father bought me a blunt instrument. He told me to knock myself out."

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

"The surprising thing about fatherhood was finding my inner mush. Now I want to share it with the world."

"I inherited that calm from my father, who was a farmer. You sow, you wait for good or bad weather, you harvest, but working is something you always need to do."

"The most important influence in my childhood was my father."

"My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker."

"My father-in-law gets up at 5 o'clock in the morning and watches the Discovery Channel. I don't know why there's this big rush to do this."

"Feels good to try, but playing a father, I'm getting a little older. I see now that I'm taking it more serious and I do want that lifestyle."

"I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set."

"I wasn't anything special as a father. But I loved them and they knew it."

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

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

"If my father had hugged me even once, I'd be an accountant right now."

"What harsh judges fathers are to all young men!"

"My father, he was like the rock, the guy you went to with every problem."

"My father wants me to be like my brother, but I can't be."

"I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please."

"Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career."

"Father told me that if I ever met a lady in a dress like yours, I must look her straight in the eyes."

"My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone."

"My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale."

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

"I wanted to be a forest ranger or a coal man. At a very early age, I knew I didn't want to do what my dad did, which was work in an office."

"As Daddy said, life is 95 percent anticipation."

"I was raised by free-spirited people, though my father gave me a very strong work ethic."

"As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me."

"Do you know that other than my father, I've never had a man take care of me?"

"Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table."

"I love my dad, although I'm definitely critical of him sometimes, like when his pants are too tight. But I love him so much and I try to be really supportive of him."

"Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father."

"Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill."

"No, I never thought about my father's money as my money."

"But I have to be careful not to let the world dazzle me so much that I forget that I'm a husband and a father."

"I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father."

"My father was never anti-anything in our house."

"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."

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

"My father loved people, children and pets."

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

"I grew up not liking my father very much. I never saw him cry. But he must have. Everybody cries."

"My father taught me how to substitute realities."

"My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him."

"My dad taught me true words you have to use in every relationship. Yes, baby."

"I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife."

"Thirteen, 13 children, and I love - I love them all. And I think I've been a good father to all of them."

"I was punished for blowing the whistle on my father's lifestyle."

"Fathers in today's modern families can be so many things."

"So my father was a person who never lied to me. If I had a question, he answered it. I knew a lot of things at a young age because I was intrigued."

"My father was something of a rainbow-chaser."

"My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother."

"The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to."

"My father was an Episcopalian minister, and I've always been comforted by the power of prayer."

"When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed."

"Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business."

"My dad always said, 'Don't worry what people think, because you can't change it."

"Rich men's sons are seldom rich men's fathers."

"When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching."

"No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair."

"My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."

"Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten."

"Dad kept us out of school, but school comes and goes. Family is forever."

"What is a normal childhood? We weren't rich, we were pretty middle-class. My dad survived from job to job with him taking care of so many relatives, he couldn't save any money."

"I like to think my dad was easygoing and kind, and I think some of those things have been passed down. I am like him in a sense of being positive and hopeful. He was compassionate, and I've got a lot of that in me as well."

"My mom and dad gave their kids the greatest gift of all - the gift of unconditional love. They cared deeply about who we would be, and much less about what we would do."

"My dad had a church of 90 people when I was born. It was just, over the years it continued to grow."

"I didn't try to copy my dad or fit into the pressure or the mold that everybody tried to make me fit into."

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

"I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive and not wake up feeling desperate. As my dad said 'Nic, it is what it is, it's not what it should have been, not what it could have been, it is what it is."

"My dad had been born in Mexico and his family had to leave during the Mexican revolution."

"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams."

"When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?"

"Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position."

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

"I've got high standards when it comes to boys. As my dad says, all girls should! I'm from the South - Tennessee, to be exact - and down there, we're all about southern hospitality. I know that if I like a guy, he better be nice, and above all, my dad has to approve of him!"

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

"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."

"When I was about 12 years old back in Houston, my Dad used to take us to the driving range."

"My dad said to me growing up: 'When all is said and done, if you can count all your true friends on one hand, you're a lucky man."

"I think a dad has to make his daughter feel that he's genuinely interested in what she's going through."

"Apparently, one in five people in the world are Chinese. And there are five people in my family, so it must be one of them. It's either my mum or my dad. Or my older brother, Colin. Or my younger brother, Ho-Chan-Chu. But I think it's Colin."

"Don't force your kids into sports. I never was. To this day, my dad has never asked me to go play golf. I ask him. It's the child's desire to play that matters, not the parent's desire to have the child play. Fun. Keep it fun."

"Anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special to be a dad, and that's why I call you dad, because you are so special to me. You taught me the game and you taught me how to play it right."

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

"One of the greatest titles in the world is parent, and one of the biggest blessings in the world is to have parents to call mom and dad."

"My dad encouraged us to fail. Growing up, he would ask us what we failed at that week. If we didn't have something, he would be disappointed. It changed my mindset at an early age that failure is not the outcome, failure is not trying. Don't be afraid to fail."

"I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts."

"My dad used to say, 'You wouldn't worry so much about what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did."

"Dad taught me everything I know. Unfortunately, he didn't teach me everything he knows."

"I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office."

"I always wanted what Mom and Dad had."

"Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe."

"My dad raised me with some good advice: 'Always tell the truth. Always shoot from the hip. You might not have many friends, but you'll never have enemies, because people will always know where you're coming from."

"My dad is a motorcycle guy, not some Hollywood dude."

"I feel lazy when I'm not working. I learned all my business sense from my dad. He always believed in me, and I think the last thing he said to me before he passed away was, 'I know you're gonna be OK. I'm not worried about you'."

"My dad loves what I do and I support my parents financially because they didn't have a job that gave them a pension."

"My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish."

"I'm a pretty hands-on dad and make the most of my custody. I take care of my little one whenever I can, and she determines what I can do and where I can do it."

"And my dad drilled it in my head, you know, 'If you want it bad enough, and you're willing to make the sacrifices, you can do it. But first you have to believe in yourself."

"But there's no substitute for a full-time dad. Dads who are fully engaged with their kids overwhelmingly tend to produce children who believe in themselves and live full lives."

"I think I've got my business notions and my sense for that sort of thing from my dad. My dad never had a chance to go to school. He couldn't read and write. But he was so smart. He was just one of those people that could just make the most of anything and everything that he had to work with."

"When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover."

"Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well."

"My dad was a particularly polite kind of guy, very courteous."

"Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical."

"I'm very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy I didn't think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that's happening to me. I'm rather surprised at who I am, because I'm actually like my dad!"

"I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera."

"My dad took me to my first movie."

"And I saw the sax line-up that he had behind him and I thought, I'm going to learn the saxophone. When I grow up, I'm going to play in his band. So I sort of persuaded my dad to get me a kind of a plastic saxophone on the hire purchase plan."

"I love being a dad. I just love it."

"My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad but New York City?"

"I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night."

"My dad became a soap opera actor, and I was an extra in a skating rink scene on the soap. I didn't audition. It was nepotism all the way."

"My dad was good with actions."

"There is nothing that would upset me more than my dad being bribed by the press. It's like, 'Just let them run it, then. Don't you give them ammunition."

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

"I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth."

"I'm a dad, I'm a husband, I'm an activist, I'm a writer and I'm just a student of the world."

"My Dad, a small-town lawyer, was also named Paul. Until we lost him when I was 16, he was a gentle presence in my life. I like to think he'd be proud of me and my sister and brothers, because I'm sure proud of him and of where I come from, Janesville, Wisconsin."

"Mom was 50 when my Dad died. She got on a bus every weekday for years, and rode 40 miles each morning to Madison. She earned a new degree and learned new skills to start her small business. It wasn't just a new livelihood. It was a new life."

"My mother raised three children on her own and my dad was a doctor working 16 hours a day."

"As my dad said, you have an obligation to leave the world better than how you found it. And he also reminded us to be givers in this life, and not takers."

"You see another side of Draco when he's with his dad. When Draco is with his dad, he doesn't say anything. He keeps his mouth shut. He's sort of bullied by his dad, so he acts very different."

"I mean, I look at my dad. He was twenty when he started having a family, and he was always the coolest dad. He did everything for his kids, and he never made us feel like he was pressured. I know that it must be a great feeling to be a guy like that."

"Working with my dad was such a gas. We approached the work in a similar way. We only made two films together when I was an adult, Tucker, and Blown Away, but it was so much fun to play with your parent like that."

"For me, growing up, the downside of it was that as a kid you don't want to stand out. You don't want to have a famous father let alone get a job because of your famous father, you know? But I'm a product of nepotism. That's how I got my foot in the door, through my dad."

"Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable."

"Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it."

"One afternoon when I was 9, my dad told me I'd be skipping school the next day. Then we drove 12 hours from Melbourne to Sydney for the Centenary Test, a once-in-a-lifetime commemorative cricket match. It was great fun - especially for a kid who was a massive sports fan."

"I don't know, I just want to be happy. I could be in a hole somewhere. Or I could completely lose it and be some hippy living in the woods with my dad."

"I didn't know my dad for a long time. My dad was on drugs and my dad was at the VA Hospital, my dad was off in his own world selling drugs or using them or there would be crack heads in the house or whatever it would be."

"My parents were working class folks. My dad was a bartender for most of his life, my mom was a maid and a cashier and a stock clerk at WalMart. We were not people of financial means in terms of significant financial means. I always told them, 'I didn't always have what I wanted. I always had what I needed.' My parents always provided that."

"My dad was a bartender. My mom was a cashier, a maid and a stock clerk at K-Mart. They never made it big. They were never rich. And yet they were successful. Because just a few decades removed from hopelessness, they made possible for us all the things that had been impossible for them."

"Without my dad, I wouldn't be here."

"My dad played fiddle as well."

"I want to be a young dad. By 25 or 26 I want to see myself, like, married or start looking for a family."

"My friends say, 'Man you're going to have kids sleeping on pillowcases with your face on it! You're going to be on toothbrushes and magnets and stuff.' I guess now that I'm a dad, I'm thrilled about that."

"My kids are not that interested in my movie career, by the way. My son, in particular, never talks about it. He just wants me as his dad."

"I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act."

"Now my dad is with me, traveling with me and a big part of this whole thing is I like to mix it up a little bit, you know. Who gets to take their father on a private jet across the country and stay in first class hotels? So we're enjoying it, but I'd stop if it's not possible."

"My dad used to say, 'Just because you dress up in a coat and tie, it doesn't influence your intelligence."

"My Dad used to tell us: 'En este pais, ustedes van a poder lograr todas las cosas que nosotros no pudimos' 'In this country, you will be able to accomplish all the things we never could."

"My dad, he is such a soft man. Even if he has these opinions about my boyfriends, he will be the sweetest guy. He will make you feel like you're fascinating and awesome, even if he doesn't like you that much."

"My dad believes in God, I think. I'm not sure if my mom does. I don't."

"My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them."

"Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder."

"It's an ongoing joy being a dad."

"My dad would give me $10, which is a lot of money when you're 9, to sing at church, on tables at restaurants, at family functions, just about anywhere."

"I forgive my mom for being a psycho and my dad for being a loser."

"It is a sad commentary of our times when our young must seek advice and counsel from 'Dear Abby' instead of going to Mom and Dad."

"There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine."

"I try to be a hard boiled sometimes. My kids see right through it. I'm acting. It's always, 'When I say you'll be back at 11, that means 11, not 11.15. Do you hear me!?' Then, 'Yeah, Dad."

"A father and two sons run Adelphia. It's a cable company. And they took from that company a billion dollars. A billion. Three people - three people took a billion dollars. What were they gonna do, start their own space program? 'Let's send the monkey to Mars, Dad!"

"One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too."

"I'm just a pretty regular dad."

"I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17."

"My dad says I could sing before I could talk, if that's possible. I was always humming and things like that."

"I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I'll settle for a second."

"My Dad was my biggest supporter. He never put pressure on me."

"My dad always used to tell me that if they challenge you to an after-school fight, tell them you won't wait-you can kick their ass right now."

"I'm a dad, and I no longer see a way for my kids to even inherit the money that I'm making, let alone go out there, have an idea, and create it in their own lifetime."

"I like all the angels around because they protect me and my daughter. I mean, her Dad's an angel."

"My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail."

"Overcoming my dad telling me that I could never amount to anything is what has made me the megalomaniac that you see today."

"Going to the theater is such a joyous experience. My dad would take my sister and me to plays when we were very young, like six or seven years old."

"My dad's a beautiful man, but like a lot of Mexican men, or men in general, a lot of men have a problem with the balance of masculinity and femininity - intuition and compassion and tenderness - and get overboard with the macho thing. It took him a while to become more, I would say, conscious, evolved."

"I can definitely say the older I've got the better I've become at being a dad and a husband."

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

"I was a mixture of being incredibly old for my age and incredibly backwards. I was born quite old, but then I stopped growing. I lived with my mum and dad till I was 30."

"I'm turning into a stricter dad."

"I have four shelves covered with journals that I've written. Dad and I are writing songs together. I've probably written 100 songs."

"I probably have an earlier curfew than anyone. My mom wants to keep me really safe and my dad's not overly protective, but he's a dad no matter what."

"I don't really know any other musicians like me. I grew up backstage with my dad who played in a post-war dance band, so I always feel at home at a venue."

"I love my dad and we have a very good relationship now."

"I'm the whitest guy you will ever meet. The first time I saw an African-American, my dad had to tell me to stop staring."

"When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories."

"Most children - I know I did when I was a kid - fantasize another set of parents. Or fantasize no parents. They don't tell their real parents about that - you don't want to tell Mom and Dad. Kids lead a very private life. And I was a typical child, I think. I was a liar."

"My Dad is my hero. He's 85 now and he is in great health. He is handsome and strong. He has an incredible moral and ethical backbone. I couldn't have been luckier with my parents."

"My dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years. And when he opened his campaign headquarters back in the early '70s, when I was 5 years old, my mother wanted me to play the national anthem. And they got an upright piano on the back of a flatbed truck and I played it."

"My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can."

"Well, my dad was the district attorney of New Orleans for about 30 years."

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

"My dad bought me a guitar and people would ask me to play."

"I shouldn't have got married. My dad told me. I was 35 and I got married. He said, 'You're too young to be married'. 'What? I'm 35'. Said, 'You're far too young. You haven't lived yet'. He was right, bless him, thanks, Dad."

"My dad is a Deadhead, my mom's a Jewish-American princess from Jersey."

"My mom was a waitress, and my dad was a plumber who worked for the City of San Clemente fixing mains breaks, so not too glamorous."

"My dad got me a huge board when I was little. He loves to surf. He suited me up and sent me out on this huge wave. I went under, and when I came out and the board hit me in the face. So I said, I never wanted to do this again. I stayed away until I was 13."

"We all started snowboarding in the beginning as a family just to be closer together, go on trips. It was our soccer, but instead of Dad yelling at me from the sideline he is there riding with me and hitting the jumps even before I am hitting them."

"My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear."

"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."

"I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13."

"My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again."

"When I was in nursery school, the teachers asked me, y'know, 'What does your dad do for a living?' So I said 'He helps women get pregnant!' They called my mom and they were like, 'What exactly does your husband do?"

"You always hear people saying, 'I hope I'm not turning into my dad', but I'd be honoured if I became half as decent a bloke as he is."

"I came back from university thinking I knew all about politics and racism, not knowing my dad had been one of the youngest-serving Labour councillors in the town and had refused to work in South Africa years ago because of the situation there. And he's never mentioned it - you just find out. That's a real man to me. A sleeping lion."

"I wanted to be a mechanic. When I was 14 I wanted to quit school and go work on my car. But my dad said Son, you shouldn't do that. You should stay in school until your education is finished, and when you're done, don't make your hobby your job."

"My dad taught me from my youngest childhood memories through these connections with Aboriginal and tribal people that you must always protect people's sacred status, regardless of the pest."

"I haven't been baptised. My dad's not in the church and is not a religious person. My mum is more spiritual - she does Thai-chi and goes to Stonehenge and things like that. I'm proud to be pagan. Finland is not really a religious country. I'm still looking for my god."

"My dad was a Methodist minister."

"The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad."

"But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity."

"My dad had a commercial film company, so he had a videotape player before anyone. So he got Mel Brooks movies or Citizen Kane or some classic old movies. And every summer the revival house in Evanston would show the great films from the '50s and '60s and '70s."

"I go off and make movies I come home, and I'm a dad and I hang with my girls."

"They have had such a crazy life living with me as their dad. Not crazy but different from their friends."

"The love of a family is life's greatest blessing."

"Family is not an important thing. It is everything."

"In family life, love is the oil that eases friction, the cement that binds closer together, and the music that brings harmony."

"The family is one of nature's masterpieces."

"A happy family is but an earlier heaven."

"You don't choose your family. They are God's gift to you, as you are to them."

"The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other."

"Family means no one gets left behind or forgotten."

"To us, family means putting your arms around each other and being there."

"Other things may change us, but we start and end with family."

"The most important thing in the world is family and love."

"Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life."

"What can you do to promote world peace? Go home and love your family."

"Being a family means you are a part of something very wonderful. It means you will love and be loved for the rest of your life."

"A man should never neglect his family for business."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's life."

"Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness."

"At the end of the day, a loving family should find everything forgivable."

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

"Home is where you are loved the most and act the worst."