Father’s Day Sayings

My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother.

My father always told me that you can do anything you want, as long as you work hard at it.

My father used to beat me with a hose. And he'd say, 'This is for your own good!' I said, 'No, it's not! It's for your pleasure!'

My father told me, 'Son, if you want to be a man, you gotta learn to fight.' I said, 'Dad, I want to be a comedian.' He said, 'Same thing.'

As I was walking down the aisle of St. Paul's on my father's arm, I thought, 'What on Earth am I doing here?'

I am a peasant's son; my father, grandfather, and great-grandfather were genuine peasants. So I am a peasant and shall remain one.

My father was a farmer, my mother was a farmer. My family was very poor.

I was in an intellectual fight with my father, and I kept saying, 'But the books say it!' And he said, 'The books are wrong!'

My father used to say that the only way to learn something is to make mistakes, and then learn from them.

I had neither father nor mother.

The only time my father ever took me to a temple was when the rabbi called him in because I threw a rubber snake at the Torah.

My father was a farmer. My mother was a farmer's wife. And I'm a farmer's son. And I'm proud of it.

I mean, I'm a pretty good golfer. I'm a pretty good basketball player. I'm a pretty good dad. I'm a pretty good husband.

My father taught me that courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.

I have a lot of things I want to do. I want to live to be 100. I want to be able to hit a golf ball 250 yards. I want to be able to dance with my wife.

My own first principle of life: to be honest, to be simple, to be myself, to be an American, a Jew, a poet, a homosexual, a mystic, a Buddhist, a father, a son, a lover, a friend, a neighbor, a citizen, a human being, a creature of the earth.

Until the child married, the father had legal rights to use children for labor for himself or his debtors. Fathers could even choose to sell their children off.

I was never again contented in our quiet home. True, I could visit my father's grave, but I had vowed vengeance upon the Mexican troopers who had wronged me, and whenever I came near his grave or saw anything to remind me of former happy days, my hea…

My father was a poet. So I grew up in exile, in a very remote area, where I didn't see any other children for five years. I was in the desert. My father was a political prisoner. So for me, freedom is not a given. It's something you have to fight for…

I had crossed the line. I was free; but there was no one to welcome me to the land of freedom. I was a stranger in a strange land; and my home after all, was down in Maryland; because my father, my mother, my brothers, and sisters, and friends were t…