My Father Quotes

Sometimes, son," my father said, prying my fingers free, "you have to help the heroes along.

Everyone I know who is successful has issues with their father, regardless of whether it was sports or business or entertainment.

And that was always my father's favorite part about shooting as well. Often my dad would shoot very, very late, he was quite a workaholic, they would do 20, 20-hour shoots and stuff like that.

I fell, you see. Trod on my abbot, Father Habit. Oh, dear! I mean.

My father was one of ten children.

I read Stephen King as a junior high schooler. My father introduced me to Stephen King far too young, which I'm very grateful for now.

We must not love the world, nor the things of the world, until the world is sanctified and prepared to be presented to the Father with the Saints upon it; then they will inhabit it for ever and ever.

The United States is the only advanced economy with no paid parental leave for either mothers or fathers.

I never really learned the value of money. My father didn't spoil me, but I think my grandparents did.

My father was in the ad business, and he wanted to be a painter.

Moses is our true founding father.

Moses became Americas true founding father because he evangelized action; he justified risk. He gave ordinary people the courage to live with uncertainty.

Superman's original name was Kal-El, or Swift God. His father's name was Jor-El. Superman was clearly drawn as a modern-day god.

Fathers can find great inspiration in faith.

All kids love to get dirty, but if I wandered into the garage, my father would say: 'Son, you're not going to have filthy hands like mine. You're going into show business.'

I think I'm even more open and more giving as a father now. I pay more attention now because I value it more and I'm less caught up with my career.

My father's a character.

It must be quite difficult if you have a father who's sort of known. On the other hand, you can get a job in his band.

Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions.

In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen.

You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'.

Father! Can I box him? Please!

My father was a writer; I've known a lot of children of writers - daughters and sons of writers, and it can be a hard way to grow up.

It was a given in our family that my father was a grocer so that I wouldn't have to be.

When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Liberalism defines government as tyrant father but demands it behave as nurturant mother.

Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.

I got started when I was 3 years old because my father was a music teacher and my lessons were free. Instead of learning to walk, you learn to play the piano.

My father and my mother separated when I was two.

I was encouraged by my mother and, to a lesser extent, by my father.

My mother born in Mexico, but was Lebanese in origin. She born 1902 the same year my father arrived to Mexico when he was 14 years old.

My father was a classical pianist, and my mother was a singer of just about everything.

My father was the kind of guy who'd always say 'Throw out any subject and I got a joke on it,'

My father was a huge influence on me.

My father was having an affair with a 16-year-old when Mum was pregnant with me. She found out when I was three weeks old and left, not surprisingly.

I grew up in a household where reading was encouraged. My mother believed in the power of words, and my father obviously did too.

My parents were both from the East and had moved to San Francisco only so my father could go to law school there.

I never really saw [my father] at all when I was growing up.

When my brother, Todd [Fisher], was born my father was already with Elizabeth [Taylor]. I was 19 or 20 when I first spent a block of time with him.

One inch at a time, that was how her father had taught her. You can't do anything but worry about the few inches right in front of you.

My real father was a portrait painter. I went to a lot of auctions as a kid and galleries.

Your father," Luke said, "what did he say to you when you saw him? What did he promise you?" "Oh, you know. The usual. A lifetime's supply of Knicks tickets.

Do you really wish to disobey me, Marbas? Do you wish to anger my father?

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

When asked what I'd be if I weren't a writer, I'm tempted to respond with one of father's favorite phrases, one I despised while growing up: "I hate 'what-ifs.'"

I think I was well brought up, for my father and mother were of one mind regarding the care of the family.

My father was like the token bad white guy in all the old Jackie Chan/Bruce Lee films.

Work alone isn't enough for me and mine; we know how to break our backs, but the great dream Of my fathers was to be good at doing nothing.

I loved him [Prince], the world loved him.Now he's at peace with his Father.Rest in power, Prince , my brother.

How strange it is that we of the present day are constantly praising that past age which our fathers abused, and as constantly abusing that present age, which our children will praise.