My Father Quotes

I was inbred into the game by my father

College is the best thing that can ever happen to you," my father used to say, and he was right, for it was there that I discovered drugs, drinking, and smoking.

I talk to my dad all the time, he's more like my buddy than my father, and he's not happy that I use him in my act. But I tell him, I have to get something out of this.

My earliest memory from childhood is of fishing with my father. And I remember vividly we were in a store, and we were buying a pup tent to go on our first camping trip.

Europe as a whole is increasingly jesttisoning the old path of the Christian fathers.

I'm a single father, I don't like to be away from my son. So I'll go out, make a film and come back. Repeat. And it's worked out very well for the last 11 years.

I have that memory of dancing on my father's feet to all the music my parents used to listen to.

Im lucky that its about fashion and perfume and cosmetics. If my father had owned a tire company, I dont know what I would have done.

In order to get as much fame as one's father one has to much more able than he.

My father left Ireland because he did not want to muck horse manure for the rest of his life, and he wanted to come to New York.

My father could swear in Gaelic and English, by the way, ladies and gentlemen.

[My father] could see as far as he could see and my mother wanted us to go to college so it was a very real part of my life.

Her father sagged as relief spread through him. “I thought something awful was happening.” She frowned. “Something awful was happening. It could have got stuck in my hair.

I come from a family where my father is a filmmaker and professor of film.

You don't need to be right all the time. Your child wants a man for a father, not a formula. He wants real parents, real people, capable of making mistakes without moping about it.

Then my mother was taken ill and died and my father took me to St. Mary's.

That's for calling your father a fool. It may be true, but it's disrespectful. Brian Fraser to teenage Jamie

Roger speaking to Brianna: It's too important. You don't forget having a dad." You do remember your father?" No. I remember yours.

My father said, If you want to do acting, you have to be successful, which is a silly thing to say.

Working with Nancy Meyers ("Something's Gotta Give") and ... Charles Shyer ("Father of the Bride"), and I'm proud of "Reds," and I'm proud of my movies with Woody (Allen).

When I was growing up in New York City, my father was a taxi driver for a time.

My father realised that for me to become a publisher in his firm would have been the end of the firm!

By the time I was in the fourth grade, I sounded exactly like my father on the phone.

You don't have to have a terrific voice or know how to read music. The only requirement is that you enjoy singing, fun and fellowship. And, this is a great hobby for fathers and sons to share.

[My mother] once cooked a ham and later found it in my father's shirt drawer. I am not kidding.

My father wasn't absolutely delighted. He wanted me to become a lawyer. I studied law, but I thought the shoe business was more exciting.

Obama gets his identity and his ideology from his father.

I believe the most compelling explanation of Obama's actions is that he is, just like his father, an anti-colonialist.

Now I take care of my mother, my father, and my entire family, as well as myself, my woman, and my team that I consider family.

I grew up around lots of men - my father, my brothers, my uncles - so I wasn't intimidated by them.

I was born knowing that I had to be a painter, because my father, an art historian, always presented painting as the only acceptable thing in life.

Don Baylor, New York Yankees DH, on Billy Martin and his predecessor Yogi Berra: Playing for Yogi is like playing for your father; playing for Billy is like playing for your father-in-law.

Many a man spanks his children for things his own father should have spanked out of him.

My father when walked into a room, you could tell that everybody loved him. They really did. He was quite a man. My mother was more into the show biz atmosphere than he was.

My father didn't want to go to Manhattan for me, and I came to Manhattan and I have done a great job in Manhattan. And then I wrote a best-seller and I wrote numerous best-sellers.

The odd thing, my dear," said her father, "is that once one has ceased trying to protect self, one finds one's self in a very comfortable position." "Where?" asked Kale "In Wulder's care.

My father read 'The New York Times,' my mother did secretarial work, we had a dog, we had a garden, I had a brother.

My father was in the First World War.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

I was a shy, awkward sort of a boy and my fathers frequent absences from home, along with my hero worship for him, made me even shyer.

I started in Martial Arts with my father when I was 4 years old. I guess I started because my two older brothers and mom trained so it was what our whole family did for fun.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that. I had an argument with my mom about Father's Day and why it's not celebrated like Mother's Day.

I changed up everything around me. I hold myself more accountable in certain situations. I try to be a better man, a better father, a better teammate.

I would never, ever desert my child. A lot of my friends didn't have fathers growing up, and they were very upset that their fathers weren't around. I was lucky to have mine around.

People say you don't need a father to be successful. I take offense to that.

Every morning when I wake and every night when I go to sleep, I'm thinking about what I can do to become a better father and a better person.

I think people have had the understanding for many years that whatever happens with the separation of parents, that the kids automatically go to the mother. The fathers don't know their rights.

It's like, no matter what I do, I always feel like I'm five years old, and I end up in the back of my father's car looking out the window, and nothing has changed in 25 years.

Style is innate to who I am. My father gave me a picture the other day. I must have been about seven, and I had on wing-tip shoes and some cool pants. I thought, 'Wow!'