My Father Quotes

My parents were both from extremely different backgrounds. My father's Italian, my mother was of Swedish descent. They're both first-generation Americans.

I grew up in hospitals. My father was sick. So I grew up in hospitals from the age of 10. Got to see a lot of suffering.

It was dangerous to hit the wrong kid in my neighborhood, because a lot of the guys I played with had fathers in the Mafia.

I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

I met Leo Fender, who is the guru of all amplifiers, and he gave me a Stratocaster. He became a second father to me.

There's no pillow quite so soft as a father's strong shoulder.

My father was not a failure. After all, he was the father of a president of the United States.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

My father followed, during most of his life, the precarious occupation of a country school teacher.

I get whatever placidity I have from my father. But my mother taught me how to take it on the chin.

My father was always telling himself no one was perfect, not even my mother.

My father was a farmer and my mother was a farmer, but, my childhood was very good. I am very grateful for my childhood, because it was full of gladness and good humanity.

I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries.

My mom was a ventriloquist and she always was throwing her voice. For ten years I thought the dog was telling me to kill my father.

I've only just arrived, Kate. It may surprise you to learn that you were my top priority.

Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.

Most American children suffer too much mother and too little father.

I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

My father taught me how to substitute realities.

My father wouldn't get us a TV, he wouldn't allow a TV in the house.

[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.

Raised by an irresponsible mother during the Great Depression in the Jim Crow south, my father was on his own from the age of 13.

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

My father was a swim teacher. We used to swim before school, swim after school.

When I was a little boy I used to borrow my father's hat, and make a press card to stick in the hat band. That was the way reporters were always portrayed in the movies.

Father's Day is hopefully a time when the culture says, 'This is our moment to look at who our men and boys are.'

I would never have done what I'd done if I'd considered my father as somebody I wanted to please.

I'm more comfortable with whatever's wrong with me than my father was whenever he felt he failed or didn't measure up to the standard he set.

Sometimes you have to travel back in time, skirting the obstacles, in order to love someone.

My father described this tall lady who stands in the middle of the New York harbor, holding high a torch to welcome people seeking freedom in America. I instantly fell in love.

I never had a speech from my father 'this is what you must do or shouldn't do' but I just learned to be led by example. My father wasn't perfect.

My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale.

My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.

The Godhead consists of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. The Father is a material being.

When did it become a problem to be a small businessman and become successful? The small businessman - like my father, or like me?

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

My father's death, my move, and my frightening and difficult delivery created a tremendous amount of stress, pain, and sadness for me. I was practically devastated beyond recovery.

My father, his spirit is with me constantly, and I'm a believer in that world and the world of dreams and that stuff.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

One of the greatest gifts my father gave me - unintentionally - was witnessing the courage with which he bore adversity.

Being a father to my family and a husband is to me much more important than what I did in the business.

An angry father is most cruel towards himself.

I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future.

My father was grounded, a very meat-and-potatoes man. He was a baker.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.