My Father Quotes

Our family was on the lunatic fringe. My mother was always completely irrepressible. My father made crowd noises into a microphone.

My father was a frustrated writer. I think he wanted to write the great American novel.

I think of my father born in this very small, limited situation and then coming out of that. Many people have this story.

He never admitted anything, even on his deathbed. He was a deluded liar. If it weren't for my father, I don't think I would be so open. So that's a huge blessing.

I've been estranged from my father since I was eight.

I have always found it difficult to wait for things - whether it was to see my father or sailor brother, Alan, again after their long sea trips, or the chance of a better job, or even new curtains.

You can as easily love without trusting as you can hug without embracing.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

He's amazing. He's a really dedicated father. I feel very blessed that every day I wake up and I live with my favourite people in the world, as well as my best friend.

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.

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

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.

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

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.'

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

I am a soul in the world: in the world of my soul the whirled light from the day the sacked land of my father.

My father was a good preacher and had a little bit of drama.

I am my father's daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I've been shooting my whole life.

Just as a father feels it is all ending and his children are off to start their own families, a new role begins. In midlife, Dad may experience his second "fatherhood" as a grandparent.

Man, man, is thy brother, and thy father is God.

You are who God says you are. Spiritually alive. Heavenly positioned. Connected to the Father. A billboard of mercy. An honored child.

I come from a stupid family. My father worked in a bank. They caught him stealing pens.

My grandfather, on my father's side, helped to draft one of the first constitutions of China. He was a fairly well-known scholar.

I grew to resent the way my father treated his furniture like children, and his children like furniture.

One encounters very capable fathers abashed by their piano-playing daughters. Three measures of Schumann make them red with embarrassment.

My old father used to have a saying: If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter.

My father never ran for office or supported anybody for office, and was not engaged in that at all. But I think people throughout the area were just in a constant state of tension - I mean, adults.

When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time.

The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want.'

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray."

Now that I'm a parent, I understand why my father was in a bad mood a lot.

You might be a redneck if your father encourages you to quit school because Larry has an opening on the lube rack.

I got into cars through my father. He used to work on cars. My job was to hold the light, which pretty much was the limit of my mechanical abilities.

Death to a good man is but passing through a dark entry, out of one little dusky room of his Father's house into another that is fair and large, lightsome and glorious, and divinely entertaining.

My father would often work all night and sleep during the day, so for us, dinner might be pancakes, and breakfast might be beef stroganoff.

The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.

Dear gourmands! my bowels yearn towards them as a father's toward his children. They are so good natured! They have such sparkling eyes!

He is very foolish who aims at satisfying all the world and his father.

For the son of man shall come in the glory of His Father, with His angels; and then shall He reward every man according to his works.

My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

My father, who died a few years ago, was a good, simple, very honest man. His faith and affection for his family was just unassailable, without question.

In person, my father is so friendly, so considerate, so funny, and so real. I have admired my father all of my life, and I love him with all my heart.

The amount of time we give to something indicates it's importance to us.

To my father, who told me the stories that matter. To my mother, who taught me to remember them.

My father was always depressed. When he was home and sober, he was mostly in his room.

Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

And I remember leaving my place in L.A. and - my father is a big fight fan - and I said, 'Dad, I got a couple of days off and I'm getting ready to go to Houston to sign to fight Muhammad Ali.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

He knew only that his child was his warrant. He said: If he is not the word of God God never spoke.