I'm trying to have my own thing, and I don't know if it's even possible. I didn't realize so many people actually think I'm trying to be like my dad. I read comments like 'She's no Elvis.' I'm not trying to be. I never set out to be.

I have always wanted my children's dads to be involved in their lives. Not just the day-to-day aspect, but the emotional shifts that they go through, when little things pop up - they need to be included, absolutely, and for the children to feel that they are.

"He follows his father with unequal steps."

"The human father has to be confronted and recognized as human, as man who created a child and then, by his absence, left the child fatherless and then Godless."

"This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago"

"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied"

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

"To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."

"Want know how I got these scars? My father was a drinker and a fiend. And one night he goes off crazier than usual. Mommy gets the kitchen knife to defend herself. He doesn't like that. Not one bit. So, me watching, he takes the knife to her, laughing while he does it. He turns to me, and he says, 'why so serious?' He comes at me with the knife. 'Why so serious?!'. He sticks the blade in my mouth. 'Let's put a smile on that face!' And why so serious?"

"She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon."

"If you honor your father, the Father of all Beings will guard you."

"I am a father with young kids, and you want to know the jobs in the future are going to be there."

"See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot."

"Dad is doing better. He's my best friend. Any time you can spend as much time with your parents that you truly love, especially when he wasn't feeling all that well, it meant the world to me."

"As a warning to parents, I mention that my father preferred me to my brother, which was very injurious to both of us. To me, as tending to produce in my mind a feeling of self-elevation; and to my brother, by creating in him a dislike both towards my father and me."

"If your father didn't work there, chances are an uncle of yours did."

"A real man loves and respects his wife and is not only a good father but a man that his kids want to call 'Daddy.'"

"My father was never really the con-man type that the film shows him to be: he was straight as an arrow, though he did have problems with the IRS."

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

"Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on."

"My father was a successful real estate developer, and he was a very tough man but a good man. My father would always praise me. He always thought I was the smartest person."

"My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately"

"He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life."

"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."