My Father Quotes

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.

My friends and I were all deathly afraid of our fathers, which was right and proper and even biblically ordained. Fathers were angry; it was their job.

The most assiduous task of parenting is to divine the difference between boundaries and bondage.

Once the rains abated, my father's garden thrived in the heat like an unleashed temper.

My father wears his faith like the bronze breastplate of God's footsoldiers while our mother's is more like a good cloth coat with a secondhand fit.

My own father had died of Alzheimer's. George [Mitchell] had been also, I think, deeply moved by a similar tragedy.

When I was maybe 5 or 6 years old, the neighborhood girls would sit on the stoop and sing. I was known as the kid who had a good voice and no father.

Just like my father, I've always loved education. In school I was a member of the honor society.

I think some of the pressure comes from the expectations of other people. Like if your father played baseball, they expect you to be the big lifesaver or something when you play a sport.

I looked up to my father when I was 7 and 8. I believed it was my calling to be in the big leagues. I'd been raised by a family that always told me I could do anything I wanted.

It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.

Father' is such an arbitary word. Douche bag, on the other hand.

My father has positional vertigo, and if he flies he gets really dizzy, so he has to drive out to California, which he does a couple times a year. We talk, but we e-mail mostly.

Greatness of name, in the father, ofttimes helps not forth, but overwhelms the son: They stand too near one another. The shadow kills the growth.

I perceive affection makes a fool Of any man too much the father.

It is a wonderful thing to get married young and become a father.

Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own.

A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both.

The episode of The Fresh Prince in Bel-Air when Will Smith's father disses him. That's sadder than when Mufasa died.

I was writing poems when I was young, you know, because my father was a poet, so it was absolutely normal to follow my father.

Marx's father became a Christian when Marx was a little boy, and some, at least, of the dogmas he must have then accepted seem to have born fruit in his son's psychology.

He will change diapers, of course he will. He is going to be a very hands-on father.

I like to feel that what I'm doing portrays this: a family where there is love between mother, father and the kids. It's a subject that is near and dear to me.

Mommy would never divorce Daddy. He's just like one of the family.

I went underground. So I didn't see [my father] for 11 years. So that was pretty traumatic time for my parents for sure.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

Every kid I knew had a father with a little stash of men's magazines which the father thought was secret and which the kid knew all about.

You know my father's favorite game? Come here and pull my finger.

My father walked to school 4 o'clock every morning with no shoes on, uphill, both ways, in 5 feet of snow and he was thankful.

Most fathers and... Mothers. Only your grandmother and Ghengis Khan know how to do it.

John Glenn's father, known as Herschel, was mostly deaf from injuries in World War I. To help out at home, young Glenn sold rhubarb all over town from the family garden.

He [God] wants us to talk to him as to a friend or father - authentically, reverently, personally, earnestly.

Bush the younger has two things going for him that his father never had. One: an easy charm with regular people and two: the power to make them disappear without a trial.

My father was a news guy, you know, he was in radio news. And so that was sort of in my DNA. It was something we talked about at the dinner table when I was a kid.

In this country, a smart leader is suspect. That's just the way it is. Even George Bush's father, who was a lot smarter than the son, had to sort of prove that he wasn't that bright.

The Founding Fathers set up a system that heavily relied upon self-reliance and competition, with only a small dose of government intrusion.

Men are more like the time they live in than they are like their fathers.

I can't imagine laying a finger on my kids. I go the other way and probably because my father was so abusive.

My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.

If you do something for the first time, you will always remember it. If your Dad has something to do with it, you write about it.

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

My family was poor, my father drove a cab for a living, but we felt normal because everybody else was in the same boat.

Gold will never free your father, the price, my dear, is you instead.

I was the adoring son of a Welsh-Irish father, a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat, a Catholic Knight of Columbus who was a blue-collar, trade union organizer and, not surprisingly, a fervid Nixon-hater.

When my father began his work in the 1970s it was a very different EU. I pay tribute to what he did. But it has now become a very different proposition: the United States of Europe.

Your secret yearnings and tearful pleadings will touch the heart of both the Father and the Son.

Your responsibility as a father and a husband transcends any other interest in life.

The Restoration began with the prayer of a 14-year-old boy and a vision of the Father and the Son. The dispensation of the fulness of times was ushered in.

I like words. And I always learn a few new ones when Father gets angry. I shouldn't neglect my education, now should I?