My Father Quotes

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

my mother hoped that i would die etcetera bravely of course my father used to become hoarse talking about how it was a privilege and if only he could

The closer the genetic relationship of the family members, as for example father-to-son, as opposed to uncle-to-nephew, the higher the degree of cooperation.

I can trace my environmentally-friendly lifestyle back to my childhood. My father was a conservative Republican that liked to 'conserve'.

My mother used to pitch to me and my father would shag balls. If I hit one up the middle close to my mother, I'd have some extra chores to do. My mother was instrumental in making me a pull hitter.

My father will go see Trans-Siberian Orchestra every single year. I mean, he's completely into it.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Father, I beg of Thee a little task To dignify my days, 'tis all I ask.

When he was twenty-three or twenty-four my father began to learn German and read philosophy in his spare hours, which did not look as though he were destined to remain long on board ship!

Most of what I know about environmental conservation I learned from my father, who has been a leader within the movement for over 30 years.

My father was an all-American football player.

My teachers [ had the most impact in my life]. Of course, my father and grandfather, but after my family, my teachers.

I say to myself, if the text was good enough for my father and grandfather, it must be good enough for me. I admit, that is a rather personal way of approaching the text - or a prayer.

The heart set to do the Father's will, need never fear defeat.

My father had gone to Vietnam.

I have three living children for whom this is a father who I want them to love and on whom they're going to have to rely if my disease takes a bad turn.

But I was right. I think that must be an hereditary quality, for my father says he is scarcely ever wrong.

Your father only has one foot on this earth. And really, really long legs . . .

Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

My father used to say that if a man fools you once, he's a jerk. If he fools you twice, you're a jerk. Only he didn't use the word "jerk."

I hope the film will help mothers and fathers to be aware that 15 is a very vulnerable age.

Turn up the TV. No one listening will suspect, even your mother won't detect it, no your father won't know. they think that I've got no respect but everything means less than zero.

My father is the Hollywood equivalent of a clean, fillet-brazed frame. My brother is like one of those fat-tubed aluminum Cannondales. I'm more like one of those Taiwanese Masis.

They address an Eclipse every morning, whom they call their "Father."

It's just not right to make an innocent child suffer because of the father's misdeeds.

My mother's studies stopped with the third year of primary school, my father with the first. They taught me a deep sense of duty. But nobody was involved in politics in my family.

The workplace should have a place where the kids can visit. They should have places at the mother's or the father's work where professionals can have their kids visit them whenever they feel like it.

My father's parents were from Sardinia and my mother's from Barcelona.

He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.

Her father picks different names for her as they change locales, but he uses Miranda often, presumably because he knows how much it annoys her.

My father was a deeply sentimental man. And like all sentimental men, he was also very cruel.

Fathers like to have children good-natured, well-behaved, and comfortable, but how to put them in that desirable condition is out of their philosophy.

In case of separation, why should the children be taken from the protecting care of the mother? Who has a better right to them than she? How much do fathers generally do toward bringing them up?

My father was a sailor and our summer vacations were always on a sailboat. I had a little boat before I had a moped.

My character Esteban is a guy who really didn't think he was gonna be there at this point in his life. He's in his early 30s. He's got a son. He's raising his son as a single father.

The animus is symbolized by male figures appearing in a womans dreams and fantasies, as a husband, son, father, lover, Prince Charming.

I think that if you walk through this life and I end up being a bad father, then it won't matter anything else I achieved in my life. It will all be irrelevant.

My father came back one day and forced my mother to submit to him. He raped her, holding a knife.

Glory to that Homer of painting, to that father of warmth and enthusiasm... he really paints men.

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

After paying for the wedding, about the only thing a father has left to give away is the bride.

Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

My children think I'm the perfect father, but I try to bring them up to know that, 'when you are old enough you will find some faults in me, so keep an open mind.'

I know I trust people too much, although I try to be a bit firm, but it is a fault that we have learnt from my father.

My father's a keen sportsman, and so is my mother. My mother's brothers all played international rugby for Samoa. That's where I got my dreams from.

I remember my father explaining, "A capitalist system is a dog-eat-dog system."

If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.

One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men.