My Father Quotes

My brother's my teacher, my mentor, and we both learnt all the acting basics from our father.

I grew up in Queens, in New York City, in a middle class Jewish family. My mother was a public school teacher, my father was a lawyer. They were Democrats - kind of middle-of-the-road democrats.

I didn't read so much Japanese literature. Because my father was a teacher of Japanese literature, I just wanted to do something else.

Father's Day was great, but all the family gatherings brought up my mother's death. Maybe it's me, because I am a wimp. We would get together, but there was someone missing!

I grew up in Detroit. I was a teen father. I lived on welfare for three years. I have a brother serving life in prison, though I believe he's innocent.

I have the best memories as a kid eating ice cream. It was a family tradition that I had with my father. It was nice.

Family holidays and weekends are really brightly colored memories, full of my mother and father, rather than our nannies and au pairs.

There are things that you cannot talk to your mother and father about, there are things that you cannot talk to your children about.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

My mother studied English and drama at the University of Pennsylvania, where my father studied architecture. She was a great influence in all sorts of ways, a wicked wit.

Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

My father is an amazing man.

One of the scary things is that, when you're a kid, you look at your dad as the man who has no fear. When you're an adult, you realize your father had fear, and that you have it, too.

There is no greater name for a leader than mother or father. There is no leadership more important than parenthood.

My father, being a Scotsman, taught me to look after finances. I'm shrewd. Some people may call me tight.

My mom and my father's birthday are on the same day.

My father valued patriotism above all other social obligations, but he had his own particular interpretation of just how true patriotism was meant to function.

Years later I would hear my father say the divorce had left him dating his children. That still meant picking us up every Sunday for a matinee and, if he had the money, an early dinner somewhere.

I know virtually no one of my age who can remember a hug, or a smile from their father, or a 'Let's go play football.'

My father and I have a very good relationship. We always got along. But I always scold him.

I had a very difficult relationship with my father, which ended up okay, but there were many difficult years.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

No, I never thought about my father's money as my money.

I had five sisters and one brother, so having a big family is a given for me, but now being a father, and trying to be a good father, I already have my work cut out for me.

Those who are quick to feel disrespected often have a spiritual vacuum in their lives, because they feel disconnected to the love of their Father in Heaven.

Our father the novelist; my husband the poet. He belongs to the ages - just don't catch him at breakfast. Artists, celebrated for their humanity, they turn out to be scarcely human at all.

It's not easy being a father, but I've been allowed a comeback.

I have found it helpful to say a prayer asking to understand the scriptures when I read them. Then I ask, "What does Heavenly Father want me to learn from this scripture?" He always helps.

I was in fact anxious about whether I would be any good at being a father. And then I met so many people who had been good parents under difficult circumstances, and I felt inspired by them.

I love being a father, it's wonderful. It's changed my life. All the clichés are true.

I hope to be judged as good a man as my father. Before I hear those words "well done" from my Heavenly Father, I hope to first hear them from my mortal father.

He is our Father - the Father of our Spirits, and was once a man in mortal flesh as we are, and is now an exalted being.

Jesus, our elder brother, was begotten in the flesh by the same character that was in the garden of Eden, and who is our Father in Heaven.

My favorite job is being a father. I have four girls now. They're a captive audience.

I'm a much better writer for being a father.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

Become what our Heavenly Father desires you to become.

The great lesson my mother and father gave me was almost invisible. It was a strong sense of being rooted.

A good father does these basic things: provides for his family, protects his family, and gives spiritual and moral guidance.

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated.

The thing that drives me more than anything else is being a father.

I hope I will be remembered as a good father and a fair employer. And a good host, of course!

The Church knows nothing of a sacredness of war. The Church which prays'Our Father'asks God only for peace.

I enjoyed my grandparents very much. My mother and father would always allow me to stay with them.

I learned early on that family, as far as my mother and father, were not an option.

It's just like being a father; you got to show them love and you got to show them the path. I don't like this role-model stuff, though.

Being a father is an everyday challenge. It goes on and on.

When I got my first check I was thinking my mother and father didn't make this probably in their lifetime. It's real amazing that some of us are just blessed.