“I'm not my dad. You hear me? I'm not my fucking dad!”— Sheila Callaghan, Phillip 'Lip' Gallagher, Jeremy Allen White, imdb.com
“Because we had known the good times, I think my brother and I felt the loss more acutely. My father's waning presence, his chronic absence, his disappearance. Now he was just a memory.”— Bryan Cranston, amazon.com
“She's picked you because you remind her of him- If you're her special someone, it's because you have similar attributes to her father. Kindness, patience, thoughtfulness- whatever it may be, like it or not you have something in common.”— Lucy Moore, femalefirst.co.uk
“We've probably been a bit spoilt. We weren't that bad, it's just that we learned what to say to get our dad to treat us to things pretty young.”— Ellen Scott, cosmopolitan.co.uk
“Just because she’s a daddy’s girl, it does not mean that she is spoiled. It however might mean that she’s used to getting her way a lot. Sometimes just let her have her way.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“Her standards are high. Yes, for how you treat her but also for how she treats you. The thing about having positive male role models is you learn how to handle the male brain and their expectations as well.”— Kovie Biakolo, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know there is no way you can repay him for those things, and he would never ask you to.”— Kirsten Corley, puckermob.com
“Because of my father, I know not to settle for less than I deserve. He has taught me age is no barrier and that I should set the pace of my own life.”— Nuzi Jahan, elitedaily.com
“There is no teacher equal to mother and there's nothing more contagious than the dignity of a father.”— Amit Ray, amazon.com
“Maybe not. But maybe that's how the world changes, Isaiah. One father, one child, at a time.”— Barbara Samuel, amazon.com
“When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”— Mark Twain, ibtimes.co.uk
“By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong.”— Charles Wadworth, ibtimes.co.uk
“A father is a man who expects his children to be as good as he meant to be.”— Carol Coats, ibtimes.co.uk
“Without my father on his Delhi rooftop, why was I here? Without him there, why should I go back? Without that ache between us, what was I made of?”— Kiran Desai, amazon.com
“I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.”— Umberto Eco, amazon.com