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  • 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. -- Tony Dungy
  • Dads are the leaders in their homes, and our kids need leaders. -- Greg Schiano
  • Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so. -- Pam Brown
  • Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs. -- Pam Brown
  • Dads are the appendix of humanity. They should just be taken out before they start causing problems. -- Nick Burd
  • We need our Dads right now, we need strong fathers. I really want fathers to get close to their children. -- Cory Hardrict
  • Dads in the family are even more important than women in the workplace: The workplace benefits from women, but the family needs dads. -- Warren Farrell
  • Dads, is it too bold to hope that our children might have some small portion of the feeling for us that the Divine Son felt for His Father? -- Jeffrey R. Holland
  • Dads - and people in general - should keep in mind that we as mothers put enough pressure on ourselves. We don't need outside pressure put on us. -- Mila Kunis
  • Dads are awkward because they're older guys who aren't cool anymore and are figuring out who they are, and they often make bad choices in fashion and music. -- Tim Heidecker
  • I think we should have a day off for Father's Day. Dads work very hard. And to be fair, a day off for Mums too, as they work hard. And more bank holidays. They rock. -- Peter Andre
  • Of the many horrors of divorce, the most egregious is that it robs a kid of the best of both worlds. Dads can do many things that even the best moms can't, and vice versa. -- Rob Lowe
  • Dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it wouldâ??ve been nice if the President wouldâ??ve helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee. -- Bristol Palin
  • Like all mothers, mother nature is delighted to keep in touch with you when you're appearing in hit tv shows like BJ and the bear and My Two Dads but when you suddenly find yourself hosting When Insects Attack, oh she becomes strangely distant. -- Greg Evigan
  • We can buy you one of those books they have for little kids 'Timmy Has Two Dads'. Except I don't think they have one called 'Timmy Has Two Dads and One of Them Was Evil'. That part you're just going to have to work through on your own. -- Cassandra Clare
  • It's like our country is being run by a bunch of bad alcoholic dads right now. -- Patton Oswalt
  • Working moms, and increasingly working dads, don't want a government handout, but they do need a hand up. -- Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working. -- Morena Baccarin
  • Ninety percent of my best friends back home are plumbers, electricians, builders, or landscapers. Most of our dads worked in trades. -- Liam Hemsworth
  • I did have two dads; one was a socialist, and one was a capitalist. I really decided I would rather be a capitalist. -- Robert Kiyosaki
  • I don't have children that I've lost in a bitter custody dispute. But I see an enormous wound in kids due to a lack of their dads. -- Warren Farrell
  • Two dads have sent me letters that said my books changed their daughters' lives. I send them packages with T-shirts and posters because, come on... that's the coolest. -- Simone Elkeles
  • I've seen women who don't have great relationships with their dads, and it all comes down to this: You have to tell girls you love them every day. -- Chris Rock
  • One of the greatest challenges in collecting child support is that deadbeat dads move from job to job and state to state. it's hard to keep track of them. -- Rod Blagojevich
  • Great pressure is put on kids who don't have dads to get out and make money, and make life easier for everybody. It was always, 'Hurry up, grow up, make money, there's no man to do it for us.' -- Tracey Ullman
  • Did you know that nearly one in three children live apart from their biological dads? Those kids are two to three times more likely to grow up in poverty, to suffer in school, and to have health and behavioral problems. -- Tony Dungy
  • It began to really eat away with me that in the '60s the federal government, desiring to help poor moms who were dealing with deadbeat dads, decided, 'We'll help: we'll give a check for every child you can have out of wedlock.' -- Louie Gohmert
  • I personally always find something really scary about watching little girls learning to manipulate their dads by baby talking. Then they grow up and use the same technique on their boyfriends or husbands. That scares me because it's just so sick on so many levels. -- Megan Fox
  • I'm in awe of people like Jerry Lee Lewis and Little Richard; they're great musicians and people. But I'm most starstruck by people in the small town where I live. Especially single dads, like me, who are working five times as hard to raise their kids. -- Kid Rock
  • 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. -- Kate Winslet
  • I used to go to my kids' soccer games and I was the only parent who wasn't screaming, because I'd have to do a show that night. It was hard. Moms and dads get more emotional at those soccer and Little League games than at a professional game. -- Neil Diamond
  • We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we've heard that, we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues. -- Karrine Steffans
  • Being a child that grew up with a single mom back in the '70s, Father's Day to me was always a very uncomfortable time. At school, we would make Father's Day cards for our dads, and I usually mailed one to my dad, and he hardly ever responded. -- Art Alexakis
  • When you have kids, you instantly feel that you do not want to do them wrong. Those dads that go off to Florida and start a new life, I couldn't imagine that: seeing my kid once every Christmas, every three years. If I'm gone for six days it feels like too much. -- Adam Carolla
  • One thing I've been happy as peach pie about - because I'm all about the children and the happiness of a woman because that makes the happiness of the home - is that nannies, day cares and babysitters are all collapsing, which is forcing moms and dads to raise their children at home. -- Laura Schlessinger
  • Let's face it: Most of us don't realize it, but we are failing our kids as reading role models. The best role models are in the home: brothers, fathers, grandfathers; mothers, sisters, grandmothers. Moms and dads, it's important that your kids see you reading. Not just books - reading the newspaper is good, too. -- James Patterson
  • My youngest son's pre-school class was recently asked what their dads do for work. The responses were things like, my dad sells money, and my dad figures stuff out. My son said, 'I've never seen my dad do work.' It's true. Skateboarding doesn't seem like real work, but I'm proud of what I do. -- Tony Hawk
  • For Christian faith not to be idle in the world, the work of doctors and garbage collectors, business executives and artists, stay-at-home moms or dads and scientists needs to be inserted into God's story with the world. That story needs to provide the most basic rules by which the game in all these spheres is played. -- Miroslav Volf
  • I never saw my dad cry. My son saw me cry. My dad never told me he loved me, and consequently I told Scott I loved him every other minute. The point is, I'll make less mistakes than my dad, my sons hopefully will make less mistakes than me, and their sons will make less mistakes than their dads. -- James Caan
  • I told my parents I wanted to be an actress years before I wrapped my head around what my dad did for a living. It's not easy to explain the job of the television journalist, especially when a lot of my friends' dads had jobs that were a lot easier to explain, like a lawyer, a banker or a doctor. -- Allison Williams
  • It is not what you do for your children, but what you have taught them to do for themselves, that will make them successful human beings. -- Ann Landers
  • My dads music was a great inspiration to me. -- Julian Lennon
  • Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals. -- Frank Welker
  • My dads my best mate, and he always will be. -- Cher Lloyd
  • I have three dads: my biological father, God and Bob Dylan. -- Jack White
  • Programs like WIC (Women, Infants, and Children) subsidize the exclusion of dads. -- Warren Farrell
  • I can't think of anything worse than being brought up by two gay dads. -- Rupert Everett
  • I ask for a lot of advice from different fathers - all kinds of dads. -- Hank Azaria
  • My dad's been one of those dads who loves showing newspaper articles to the neighbors. -- Girl Talk
  • I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17. -- Miley Cyrus
  • My dad was one of those dads that would make me stop crying by threatening to beat me. -- Felipe Esparza
  • I did what all good Iriah dads do when faced with a worthy adversary..I said Ask your mother!! -- Eoin Colfer
  • ...make dads the godly leaders [of the family] with the women in submission, raising kids for the glory of God. -- Randall Terry
  • Women work as much as men now, if not more. There's a resurgence of dads in the home and moms working." -- Morena Baccarin
  • I like wearing my dads sweaters because I knew that he wore them when he held me when I was a baby. -- Troian Bellisario
  • Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. -- Barack Obama
  • When moms and dads put their kids in acting class, good luck. Because you're just filling them with stuff they don't need yet. -- Anna Chlumsky
  • I also turn down what's probably a good amount of coinage to be made out of playing dads, an incredible number of obnoxious dad. -- Bill Pullman
  • I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn't get close to a baby, let alone change nappies. -- Bernie Ecclestone
  • My dads great. Hes an amazing artist. A sculptor. Hes wonderful and supportive. I love going to museums with him - we talk about... everything. -- Grace Gummer
  • I think dads let babies take more of a risk, maybe bounce off a bed more or jump off a couch or do more risk-taking things. -- Al Roker
  • All societies that have survived have survived based on their ability to prepare their sons to be disposable, in war and at work--and therefore as dads. -- Warren Farrell
  • Every year, dads will dress up as Santa and try to surprise their kids by coming down the chimney, and every year, a dad gets stuck and dies. -- Kyle Dunnigan
  • I do want children. I study dads more. I watch what they go through. I admire my father more than I ever did and my brother and my sister. -- Adam Sandler
  • Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds. -- Warren Farrell
  • Kids seem to get me when I play colleges - they like it because I go after them. They'll come up after and say I am like their dads, only funny. -- Lewis Black
  • In every movie and every TV show, the dads are morons. And dads tend to react by doing what dads do best: They check out. They say, 'Ask your mother.' -- Steve Schirripa
  • Stay away from drugs and alcohol. Listen to your moms and dads. In this great country of ours you do whatever you set your mind to. Make us proud of you. -- Mickey Mantle
  • More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad. -- Kurtwood Smith
  • More of him came from my step-dad, who is now passed away. The initial creators of the show kind of based the character on their dads and then I added my dad." -- Kurtwood Smith
  • I took a year and a half off, when my kid was born, because I didn't want to be one of those dads where the kid doesn't know who his dad is. -- Michael Pena
  • What I want to be best at is being a dad. There's no room for sucky dads, and that's another thing I'm proud of my bandmates for - they're all really good parents. -- Adrian Young
  • I don't have problems starting writing. I have problems stopping. I'm one of the last dads to arrive at school to collect the kids, because I want to get this paragraph just right. -- David Mitchell
  • It's important for moms, but also dads, to recognize that they're role models when it comes to their kids' physical health, when it comes to working out, and when it comes to nutrition. -- Dominique Dawes
  • Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities. -- Gary Smalley
  • I'm probably the most uncool guy that [my daughters] know-as far as they are concerned anyway-'cause I'm Dad. I mean dads just aren't cool-especially when I dance! They don't want me to dance. -- Tim McGraw
  • When I'm home, I've got the kind of time that other dads who live there full time don't have. I can go and have lunch with my kids at school and that sort of thing. -- Thomas Gibson
  • I came in the Dawson's Creek era; it was all about tiny guys who looked like teenagers, and I haven't looked like a teenager ever. So I was, like, auditioning to be their dads. At 25. -- Jon Hamm
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