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.Frank Butler
My father was the youngest of six brothers, and he was the brains. I never thought he was making what he should have. He had to split it with five brothers. So I made up my mind: I was going to go on my own and make my own money.Alan C. Greenberg
My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.Michelle Bachelet
My father was a man who didn't consider himself learned. He was a man who liked to be a farmer. He enjoyed his dairy farm and felt the calling. So there was a dedication. I was dedicated as a child to the service of God, and so there was this continual centering of a greater purpose than your own.Phil Jackson
I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.Sigmund Freud
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.Marshall McLuhan
I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.Malcolm X
As a little girl I used to daydream about my real father coming on a white horse to rescue me.Christine Keeler
That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.George Bernard Shaw
When a father, absent during the day, returns home at six, his children receive only his temperament, not his teaching.John Bowlby