My Father Quotes

While this has been a private part of my family's life, it is now clear a media story will soon emerge. My father tragically ended his life while battling terminal cancer in 1979.

I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther.

I don't think children's inner feelings have changed. They still want a mother and father in the very same house; they want places to play.

We didn't have television in those days, and many people didn't even have radios. My mother would read aloud to my father and me in the evening.

My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then.

Like my father before me, I'm a very passionate person, with boundless energy and tremedous willpower.

I don't regret the numerous pictures of Brigitte Bardot, but I'd rather have a good photograph of my father.

My father used to say that you could only access culture before cinema by learning to read and write, but that once cinema was invented, knowledge was available to anybody.

The greatest gifts my parents gave to me...were their unconditional love and a set of values.

Old father, old artificer, stand me now and ever in good stead.

Let's get up off our knees, stop cringing before bogeymen and virtual fathers, face reality, and help science to do something constructive about human suffering.

My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man. He hoped I would see my way to more serious work and would find myself turning towards medicine, law, or business.

I am here to tell you my father was right. You are a raging f..kwit. Now f..k off.

I want you to understand something: I am loving father who would do anything for his kids, whether they are mine or belonging to others in my family.

The mother of useful arts is necessity; that of the fine arts is luxury. For father the former has intellect; the latter genius, which itself is a kind of luxury.

He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son. All of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.

The two greatest plays ever written were Hamlet and Oedipus Rex, and they're both about father-son relationships.

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Come on fathers, don't hesitate, send them off before it's too late. Be the first one on the block to have your boy come home in a box.

Though my father was poor and had nothing, the Torah, the poetry of prophets, was his daily bread.

I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.

My father rebelled ferociously against his conservative upbringing where his father physically abused him.

My knees on the ground, dear father, don't let me break, please make me stronger.

Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.

I don't write about the intimate details of my cousins and aunts and uncles, and my mother and my father because it's not right to, for me.

For David Parker and Daniel Parker, with the respect and admiration of their father, who grew up with them.

The theater was my mother and my father.

Boxing is your father's sport.

It's like this. Father Time keeps pitching the years at us. We swing and miss at a few. We hit a few out of the park. We try not to take any called strikes.

I've learned... That simple walks with my father around the block on summer nights when I was a child did wonders for me as an adult.

I surrender to the world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Father, look upon us in Your goodness and kindness, we pray as a church. Help us to love each other.

I seem to keep returning to my father in poems because his personality was so extreme, so driven. He did everything to excess.

Hey, Ocean Eyes,” my father said. “Where’d you go on us?

I don't run democracy. I train troops to defend democracy and I happen to be their surrogate father and mother as well as their commanding general.

How many a father have I seen, A sober man, among his boys, Whose youth was full of foolish noise.

I was brought up on art. My father thought I had a great hand at art and sent me to art school. But he did not want me to become a photographer.

Is there a parson much bemused in beer, a maudlin poetess, a rhyming peer, a clerk foredoom'd his father's soul to cross, who pens a stanza when he should engross?

Sailing became one of the mainstreams of my life. I suppose my father was an influence. I remember seeing a photo of him at home sailing a big boat to Bermuda in his 20s. I still have it.

There comes a time, thief, when the jewels cease to sparkle, when the gold loses its luster, when the throne room becomes a prison, and all that is left is a father's love for his child.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

Woman's work as a listener is never done. ... I thought I'd spent too much of my life listening for some damn man - for my father and now for my husband.

I say things, like every other parent, that reminds you of your own parents. One thing I do know about being a parent, you understand why your father was in a bad mood a lot.

Roxy Sorkin, your father just won the Academy Award. I'm going to have to insist on some respect from your guinea pig.

My father was trained as a saddler, but in fact as a young man worked in his father's business of rearing and selling cattle, so he grew up in the countryside.

The world being unworthy to receive the Son of God directly from the hands of the Father, he gave his Son to Mary for the world to receive him from her.

I don't even know how to speak up for myself, because I don't really have a father who would give me the confidence or advice.

We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication .

Once I started to get older, my father would say, 'You look more like George Harrison than I do'

None are drawn to Christ by their calling, nor come to him by believing, but only his sheep, those whom the Father has given him,. Effectual calling runs parallel with eternal election.