My Father Quotes

Don't ever forget the words on a postcard that my father sent me last year: "If you win the rat race, you're still a rat.

My father really, really pushed me to excel in a way that I resented for years and then realized had really worked for me.

My father expected his first child to be a boy, and when it didn't turn out that way he didn't let the fact get in the way of a good story.

My father used to get me to read the newspaper to him, as if I was a radio. I would stand there and read the 'Times.

If my father were still writing essays, every full-grown 'girl' would probably be transformed into a'woman'.

Looking back on the God my friend believed in, he seems a little erratic, not entirely unlike her father - God as borderline personality.

My father really taught me that you really develop the habit of writing and you sit down at the same time every day, you don't wait for inspiration.

My father was a writer, so I grew up writing and reading and I was really encouraged by him.

Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?

Her father said she was a princess. He did not see that she was a brave knight.

I have students whose fathers are voting for Sarah Palin. It's wild.

I've felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father's family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

My father wasn't a cruel man. And I loved him. But he was a pretty tough character. His own father was even tougher - one of those Victorians, hard as iron - but my dad was tough enough.

My father was aloof, very strange and very distant.

I don't think my father was a bad man, all in all.

Until he lost all his money, my father was a successful north London Jewish businessman. He was unusual among his immediate family in that he was enormously cultured and had an incredible library.

Her father was the face of her morning and night, he was everything, so saturating Havaa’s world that she could no more describe him than she could the air.

I think the obvious answer is I was raised in New York City, so growing up, not only myself but my family, like my father, we would watch a lot of Scorsese films.

I have to be a father first and a husband first.

I don't think I'll be playing again. I'm very content and happy, doing the types of things I haven't gotten to do, be a father.

My father was predisposed to drunken rages. I would hide under the bed. My sister and I were talking just the other day about the terror a drunken man in a rage can create in a child.

My father raised me to think independently and follow my own path in life.

If need is the mother of all inventions, then curiosity is its genetic father undoubtedly.

If it wasn't for my sport and my father, I'd probably be a fallen statistic. I'd be dead; I'd be in jail. Luckily, I had a great dad in my life.

I believe my father has and always will be the strongest influence in my life, as he has guided me on many paths.

I spent my entire childhood living abroad because of my father's occupation, so we were on long-haul flights all the time.

With a diplomat father, for whom foreign postings were a fact of life, my siblings and I were expected to attend boarding schools in Britain.

I had grown up in a privileged, upper-caste Hindu community; and because my father worked for a Catholic hospital, we lived in a prosperous Christian neighborhood.

I can't see any separation between my music and my life. I play pretty much race music: its about what happened to my father, to me, and what can happen to my kids.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

Almost 24 million children - one in three - are likely growing up without their father involved in their lives.

I was born in 1929, that was the depression, so the golf course was manned by my father and two guys, they worked for my dad and they took me with them everywhere they went. And it was fun.

I wanted to emulate my father. I wanted to be as tough as he was. I wanted to do the things that he did. I watched him.

I was playing cowboys and Indians in the trees, and then I started hitting the golf club with clubs father sawed off for me, and I began playing right here with my father.

My father started on this golf course at Latrobe when he was sixteen years old. He was digging ditches when they were building the golf course.

You must understand, that for a daughter to protect her father's image is natural; Freud built a whole career around it.

My father was an immigrant from Russia and my mother was first generation.

I always saw myself as really ugly. My father even told me I was ugly because I would shave my head and look like a boy.

[On her UNICEF work:] I'm glad I've got a name, because I'm using it for what it's worth. ... I do not want to see mothers and fathers digging graves for their children.

When the sins of our fathers visit us We do not have to play host. We can banish them with forgiveness As God, in his His Largeness and Laws.

We must make democracy the popular creed...If we should fail to do this, our people are bound to suffer... That is what my father said. It is the reason why I am participating in this struggle.

After all it was my father who founded the Burmese army and I do have a sense of warmth towards the Burmese army.

I grew up listening to a lot of Ray Charles and '60s rock, thanks to my father, and then my brothers got me in to KISS and whatnot, so I guess that's where I got my first taste for music.

I am grateful to my father for sending me to school, and that we moved from Somalia to Kenya, where I learned English.

My father is sure that Israel keeps the Holocaust from happening again. I worry that it might hasten its recurrence.

My father was a psychiatrist and a social worker but he was a very talented painter and musician and writer on the side.

The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed.

The pain I felt was my father's pain.

Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.

So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.