My Father Quotes

I inherited a vile melancholy from my father, which has made me mad all my life, at least not sober.

When I was 7, I wanted to be a jockey. My father told me women weren't allowed. I couldn't believe it. I was perfectly willing to fail on my own merits, but to be flunked at birth?

The relationship between father and his daughter - there is no other love like it and there never ever will be. It's beyond unconditional and is the best form of love there is.

And try to stay out of trouble with the ladies. Remember, they all have fathers and brothers and some of them have armies.

Loving fathers give their children boundaries so they won't get hurt and can live with peace and purpose.

I don't know my biological father. That could have had a huge impact on my life had it not been for the fact that my dad married my mom when I was one and raised me as his own.

My father taught me to paint when I was young with watercolors and so I learned at a very young age the essential elements of the value of light and composition.

You can inherit male-pattern baldness from your mother's father, but not a tendency to fight in the First World War.

When I was 7 years old, my father asked me a simple question. He said, 'do you want to see someone fly?' What 7 year old boy is gonna say no to that?

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

When a man makes up a story for his child, he becomes a father and a child together, listening.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

A lot of people don't know that my father is black

I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.

My time is being shared with my fans and the people of the world, while I have got children growing with a lot of days of not seeing their father.

The thing with psychoanalysis is I know basically what happened in my childhood. I know where things went wrong and I know what my mother said at one point and what my father said at one point.

My father was a painter and an anarchist, always getting in trouble for his performance art.

My father was a patriarch inside a matriarchy, but never knew it.

As the son of a Protestant Christian mother and a Shia Muslim father, I have nevertheless ended up without a religious bone in my body.

I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really had much religious experience.

My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

My father told me to dress to reflect the respect you have for the people around you. I've never forgotten that.

Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

Father says it will come in time. “Time heals,” he says. I don’t tell him that I don’t know what time is.

Franklin may . . . be considered one of the founding fathers of American democracy, since no democratic government can last long without conciliation and compromise.

Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountainside Let freedom ring!

The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

For the freedoms our founding fathers not only dreamed about, but made into reality. It is that same pursuit of freedom today that is helping to make our world a safer place.

I didn't have parents, so I lived in people's homes... And because I grew up with no parental role models, I learned to become my own friend, eventually my own father and my own mother.

My father was all brain and little heart.

I kicked a boy in the shins in second grade for making fun of my father.

At Murry Bergtraum High I wanted to be as different from my father as possible. So I acted out in school, I was very anti-authority.

My father pulled into Pearl Harbor four days after the bombing, and he said, everything was still burning. He said they never told the public how bad it was. It was really bad.

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.

Our Sabbath practices reveal which Trinity we truly worship: Father, Son, and Spirit... or me, myself, and I.

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.

Mike Compton knows more about Bill Monroe style mandolin than the Father of Bluegrass himself.

But let the good old corn adorn The hills our fathers trod; Still let us, for his golden corn, Send up our thanks to God!

Most of my father's life consisted of traveling to almost every part of Europe.

Women are concerned about the purity and welfare of the community. ? While the father's love was related to mundane desires, the mother's love was related to spiritual concerns.

Before she married my father, my mother was a film reviewer for The Akron Beacon Journal - a small newspaper.

I realize that when I moved out of my father’s house I shocked and frightened him because I needed a room of my own, a space of my own to reinvent myself.

I was raised in Chicago, so always used Latina. It's what my Father and brothers called ourselves, when we meant the entire Spanish-speaking community of Chicago.

He's by best friend and the father of my children. He's a great ex.

You can be Hitler and go to confession and say forgive me, Father, I killed six million Jews, and the priest would just be like no problem. Say 10 Heil Marys. And Hitler goes to heaven.

Father's Day is important because, besides being the day on which we honor Dad, it's the one day of the year that Brookstone does any business.

My father has always been supportive of my individuality.