My Father Quotes

I'd rather be David Ladd's father than Alan Ladd any day

My mother was a housewife. My father was a garment worker.

My aunty says I'm the double of my father. He was a workaholic, which I've definitely inherited. And like me, he could be the life and soul of the party, but also quite withdrawn.

No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture.

Baseball is sunshine, green grass, fathers and sons, our rural past.

Every man is responsible only for his own acts. The sons do not inherit the sins of the fathers. But can we say: that was long ago, they were different?

As the fathers live, so the children play.

If he was an inch taller he'd be the best center half in Britain. His father is 6 ft 2 in - I'd check the milkman.

Nothing embarrassing, but hopefully I can call myself a gentleman because of my father.

I kept thinking my father would come back, But he never did.

My father taught me how to draw horses - for this I shall be eternally grateful.

My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.

My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

Who ne'er knew joy but friendship might divide,Or gave his father grief but when he died.

My father always said, 'If you love what you do, you won't mind slogging through it for several hours a day.

In 2004, I joined my father, John Kerry, on the trail in his bid for the United States presidency.

I like listening to the whole song. Like my father says, "If you can't pick the whole song, then why are you playing it?"

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

I remember when my father passed away, we drove the funeral procession past the bank so he could say one last goodbye. That's how much the bank meant to my father.

My mother's blood that would last forever after. The blood of my brother, my grandfather, my father.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

As she stood in the darkened room and watched my sister and father, I knew one of things that heaven meant. I had a choice, and it was not to divide my family in my heart.

I watched my brother and my father. The truth was very different from what we learned in school. The truth was the line between the living and the dead could be, it seemed, murky and blurred.

If there was ever a bigger pansy than my father, it was Marcel Proust.

When I was 12 and met my real father for the first time, I was terrified I would lose the one I already had.

Only after my father's death could I speak my own individual truths about him. In a sense, I had to turn him into a character, a figure I could control through language.

I lived a life I knew I had to hide My father's edicts resolutely grim.

I do love science. My father is a scientist.

Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.

Kat had been picking things up since her third birthday, when Hamish and Angus's father took them all to the circus because he needed to "borrow" an elephant.

As a servant desireth the approval of his master, and a son the approval of his father, so should we desire the approval of God and our own conscience.

DELUSION, n. The father of a most respectable family, comprising Enthusiasm, Affection, Self-denial, Faith, Hope, Charity and many other goodly sons and daughters.

My dream is much more modest than the dreams of the founding fathers. My dream is for Israel to live in peace with its neighbors and at peace with itself. This will be sufficient for me.

Hold yourself on your own. A man's job in a romantic dynamic is not to be your butler, bank account or your father.

I love man as creator, lover, husband, friend, but man the father I do not trust. I do not believe in man as father. I do not trust man as father.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

I think naturally my orientation is from my father.

Perpetuity is stamped upon the Constitution by the blood of our fathers.

I grew up in a very rationalist household. My father, in particular, came from that mid-century tradition of thinking science will ultimately explain everything.

I think it's sensible to plan for the future now I'm a father and a husband.

My father was the center of the family, and everyone tried to please him.

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

Our fathers waged a bloody conflict with England, because they were taxed without being represented. This is just what unmarried women of property are now.

I have men in my life. I have a brother. So Maddox will have male teachers. I was raised without a father.

I'd love to have a great relationship with my father. And unfortunately... I don't.

My husband is the most brilliant father on the planet.

When I turned fifteen, I remember my father gave me a credit card which I was allowed to use for two things: emergencies and books.

I think eventually I want to become a teacher, like my father wanted to be, and hopefully positively influence the next generation.

I remember from my father's funeral that the minister kept using a metaphor about life of a prism. And I took that away like a cherished image.