My Father Quotes

I am really looking forward to driving another of my father's car at the show in Rotterdam.

I'm a car nut. My father was a parts manager at a Chevrolet dealership.

When I received the news of the Nobel Peace Award, I could not believe it. I told my father, 'I think they have the wrong name, Dad. Please, can you talk to this man on the phone? I'm busy cooking!'

I was brought up by my father to think that the best thing in life was to be charming, to have a nice smile, always to be liked.

My father has been an actor since 1964. Things were tight a lot of the times, financially. It wasn't like a big romantic adventure.

It's so interesting that the romantic side of my life comes from my father, who I really didn't even know that well.

We all know the personal relationship between Michel Platini and President Blatter. It was like a mentor and protege, or even father and son.

Any son of a dictator, I'm sure, has major issues with their relationship with their father.

My father had a difficult relationship with success, maybe because he never obtained it. But he was very wise about it because he observed how you can become rotten fruit once you get power.

Father's Day each year makes me grateful for what my father did for me. This has little to do with our relationship, and much to do with what he taught me.

A lot of people reject the idea of God as Father if they've had a competitive relationship with their own father.

My father would tell me if I wasn't writing in meter verse, it wasn't poetry.

I know I should feel anger at my father for certain things. But since he died when I was 11, I never got to that point.

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

Last winter when I was coming home from church one Thursday evening, I saw somebody run around the house again. I told my father of that.

You always bump into politics in life, and as a man, I'm party to a number of environmental issues that concern me first and foremost, as a man, as a father.

My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'

My dad was very intelligent, had a very strong personality. I was amazed with my father.

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.

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

My dad always told me that the principal reason he chose New Zealand to emigrate to after World War II was the high regard his father had for the Kiwis he encountered at Gallipoli.

I'm a fun father, but not a good father. The hard decisions always went to my wife.

My father was something of a rainbow-chaser.

The best money advice ever given me was from my father. When I was a little girl, he told me, 'Don't spend anything unless you have to.'

That is the thankless position of the father in the family - the provider for all, and the enemy of all.

No man is responsible for his father. That was entirely his mother's affair.