My Father Quotes

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.

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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?

My father was a classical singer of baroque music, and my older sister was in musical theatre, and I thought about doing the same thing but then realised straight acting was for me.

If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin.

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we're having as a society is because we don't have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.

I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church.

Mom, thank you. Mr. Palmer, my father I never had, thank you for teaching me what it is to be a man.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

And Jesus was a Jew too. Your god. He was a Jew like me. And so was his father.

Congress is functioning the way the Founding Fathers intended-not very well. They understood that if you move too quickly, our democracy will be less responsible to the majority.

I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.

I come from a very poor family, with sisters. I never really knew my father, so I miss this strong image of a man in my life.

Father-daughter relationship, is something that I think is so unique and it can't really be explained unless you have a daughter.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

My father, Robert Ernst, was teaching as an architect at the technical high school of our city.

I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my father.

Prayer is more than thoughts and feelings expressed in words. It is the opening of mind and heart - our whole being to God our Abba Father. It is Divine Union.

People resemble still more the time in which they live, than they resemble their fathers.

My father is Jaime Rodriguez from San Antonio, Texas, and I've got one whole half of my family that's Mexican through and through.

If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

One of my father's most precious legacies to me was spiritual. I learned from him the value of courage and the strength of will.

Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.

Most fathers don't threaten to disembowel their daughter's boyfriends." "That's not true. And anyway, that's not what I actually said. It was much worse.

I was born in a poor family, a lower middle class family. My father was a clerk in the forest department. I was very bad at studies. I was not very good at sports, also.

I believe I inherited my sense of music from my father. My father was an ear piano player; he could just hear something and play it.

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

My father told me very early on that it was a sin to worry too much.

An old philosopher said to Monsieur Coignard, a Reverend Father: 'You are a pig!' To which Abad Coignard answered: 'You flatter me, sir. But unfortunately, I'm only a man.'

My father has made a museum with my cuttings and photographs.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Old times, as my father used to say: If you're not careful, they'll gut you like a fish.

A lot of controversy over this possible invasion of Iraq. In fact, Nelson Mandela was so upset, he called Bush's dad. How embarrassing, when world leaders start calling your father.