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  • Yeah. You've seen The Sun today; I've got myself a big house, settled down. Apart from the odd night out with the New Fathers' Club, I'm a family man now. -- Damon Albarn
  • More broadly across time and cultures, it seems, one perennial piece of advice to father has been the importance of acting tenderly toward their children. The New Father, it turns out, is an old story. -- David Blankenhorn
  • When Charles first saw our child Mary, he said all the proper things for a new father. He looked upon the poor little red thing and blurted, "She's more beautiful than the Brooklyn Bridge." -- Helen Hayes
  • After September, I've reflected on the campaign, and being a new father of twin boys, I really feel like I owe it to the kids in the city to give this a shot and make this district a better place. -- Jeffrey O. Henley
  • A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times when he's in there, as if he needed company. The only way for this father to be certain of bathroom privacy is to shave at the gas station. -- Bill Cosby
  • New fathers, political prisoners, traumatised presidential aides, resolute schoolboys, MEPs addressing unfriendly chambers - we all find that Shakespeare has magically anticipated our precise circumstances. How he was possible, I still don't understand; but there isn't a day I'm not grateful that he speaks to me in my own language. -- Daniel Hannan
  • Defining and celebrating the New Father are by far the most popular ideas in our contemporary discourse on fatherhood. Father as close and nurturing, not distant and authoritarian. Fatherhood as more than bread winning. Fatherhood as new-and-improved masculinity. Fathers unafraid of feelings. Fathers without sexism. Fatherhood as fifty-fifty parenthood, undistorted by arbitrary gender divisions or stifling social roles. -- David Blankenhorn
  • I've never protected the president [in real life], but I have been a new dad, and I can tell you that being a new dad is pretty terrifying. I'm pretty sure that something about the president makes the stakes a little higher, but to me as a new father, nothing is more important or scary than protecting a daughter. -- Channing Tatum
  • My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever. -- Nat Hentoff
  • My father was a Norwegian tenor and my mother a New York Irish librarian. -- David Johansen
  • Michael Jackson has a new baby boy; no word yet who the father is. -- Jay Leno
  • Father's Day: When you get that lethal combination of alcohol and new power tools. -- David Letterman
  • When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time. -- Diane Lane
  • Whoever sees Christ as a mirror of the Father's heart, actually walks through the world with new eyes. -- Martin Luther
  • New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father. -- Patricia Briggs
  • My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home. -- Eleanor Catton
  • EVERY ENDING IS A NEW BEGINNING. YOUR LUCKY NUMBER IS NONE. YOUR LUCKY COLOUR IS DEAD. Motto: LIKE FATHER, LIKE SON. -- Neil Gaiman
  • I feel about New York as a child whose father is a bank robber. Not perfect, but I still love him. -- Woody Allen
  • In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • My father went to Rutgers, and I grew up in New Jersey, so I'm a great Rutgers fan. I have season tickets. -- Peter Eisenman
  • In 1927, my father descended the heights and took his place as the newly appointed water boy for his beloved New York football Giants. -- Jane Leavy
  • The more the father is involved, the more easily the child makes open, receptive, and trusting contact with new people in its life. -- Warren Farrell
  • I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I? -- Brandon Sanderson
  • People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory. -- Pele
  • I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends! -- Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava
  • My parents were New Yorkers, and I was conceived in Los Angeles. My father was a makeup artist to Clint Eastwood and Richard Chamberlain. -- Michele Lee
  • In your morning prayer each new day, ask Heavenly Father to guide you to recognize an opportunity to serve one of His precious children. -- M. Russell Ballard
  • My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother. -- Donna Leon
  • My dad was a New York City cop. His father was a New York City fireman. And my mother's dad was a city taxi driver. -- Joe Lhota
  • Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life. -- Mahesh Babu
  • ...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties. -- Louis C. K.
  • Tonight, the daughter of an immigrant from Italy has been chosen to run for vice president in the new land my father came to love. -- Geraldine Ferraro
  • My father was like the Old Testament. I am the New Testament. I am part of a new generation. In time, people will realize this. -- Ziggy Marley
  • Elvis Presley is the main founding father of rock music. He was an unheralded genius behind a new music that changed western civilization for all time. -- Peter Noone
  • Which God is the forgiving one, exactly? Old Testament, where He got His rocks off by smiting? Or New Testament, once Our Heavenly Father got Prozac? -- Thomm Quackenbush
  • I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear? -- Peter De Vries
  • My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York. -- Denis Leary
  • Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • My father and grandfather were businessmen. The family business was Adelphi Paints in New Jersey. When the first energy crisis came in the early 1970s, the business suffered. -- David Einhorn
  • This is something that, as artists, we constantly deal with-throwing away the past, slaying the father, and creating the new. This desire to throw away the old rules. -- Kehinde Wiley
  • All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now. -- Joseph Mitchell
  • My father said, 'You should do 'A Day in the Life of Medicine.' A book about how the human race wants to heal itself in new ways. -- Rick Smolan
  • A father can pass on his nose and eyes and even his intelligence to his child, but not his soul. In every human being the soul is new -- Hermann Hesse
  • Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind. -- John Jeremiah Sullivan
  • The new psychiatrists say that everything and anything can be traced back to sexual causes. Their method, for example, could be explained as the eroticism of father confessors. -- Karl Kraus
  • I grew up in New Jersey and my father was a golf pro, so I was groomed for sports, but I wasn't very good, so my interests lay elsewhere. -- Joe Dante
  • My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants. -- Junot Diaz
  • My father moved through theys of we, singing each new leaf out of each tree, (and every child was sure that spring danced when she heard my father sing)... -- Mitch Albom
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