My Father Quotes

No, well, my father's definitely not Christopher Walken.

I'm always showing pictures off. I have to be careful who I show them to because of who I am, obviously, but I'm a proud father.

I was mentally, emotionally and verbally abused by my father as far back as I can remember until I left home at the age of eighteen

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable.

Regrettably, to deactivate an entire cartel also proved to be a difficult task for my father and with all the enemies he had, even more.

I argued constantly with my father [Pablo Escobar] because I never liked all the violence that he created.

Unfortunately, on my father's side we have a nonexistent relationship. But my mother and sister and I live very closely, we remain in the same city and we see each other every day.

My sister, my mother and I are great friends. We have always valued our immediate family immensely, something we learned from my father.

My father was in charge of managing the farm.

My mother converted to Catholicism to marry my father.

My parents came from different backgrounds. My father's was grander than my mother's, so my mother had... to put up with the disapproval of my father's relations.

Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.

Did we risk our lives to defend a just society, where guilt must be proven and not assumed? Or are we no better than the oppressive kings from whom our fathers fled?

I always loved my mother, felt loved, but she was judgmental. Her father in Ireland didn't approve of women generally, and she took on his values. She believed her own mother was foolish.

I grew up all over the world. My father was in the army and was posted to a new place every two and a half years. I have no geographical roots.

My father was very intense, passionate and over-the-top. He was my hero and my tyrant.

My mother took care of us until my father scrammed, and then she ended up working in the small-factory sector of New Jersey with a lot of other immigrants.

My father was a trigamist; he supported three families. We were never not poor.

My father was a Little League dictator. That really affected me, his control-freakery, his impunity, his arbitrary unreasonable power.

I just wanted to compile these stories about growing up with my father and I wanted people to be able to enjoy them individually, but also the entire book as a whole.

There's no such thing as a teenager that listens to a single word their father says.

To keep up as good a cuisine as your father.

Oblivion eyes on a cereal box, the warm blinds of a father lost and last to know lost and last to love last boy lost you can't see even a bubble once it's popped

I have to say I have an incredible musical education because of my father.

Dear Father, take my heart on a prayer journey today to erase the distance between those I love and me. Amen.

My father was from the South and turned me into a news junkie at a very early age. I would sit and watch TV with him.

Fathers should make you feel safe.

I had been eagerly waiting just such a disaster. Storms, wolves, snakebite, floods-these are the occasions to find out how your father sees you, how strong and necessary he thinks you are.

Gar taldin ni jaonyc; gar sa buir, ori'wadaasla. (Nobody cares who your father was, only the father you'll be.) - Mandalorian saying

You can't stop father time... but you can show [him] down.

I think that at some point everybody turns into their mother or their father, it's just not normally from morning to afternoon.

I grew up watching science fiction with my dad. It was kind of our little secret. It was our bonding time as father and daughter.

You know, we travelled a lot when I was a kid because my father was wherever the work was.

My father was a director, and he used to always tell me, "You should be an actress." When I was 17, he gave me a job so that I'd be in the union.

And I think that's why I was going to be a musician. I was very rebellious. And I didn't want to be an actor. My father used to say to me you should be an actor if you want to be in the arts.

When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.

Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.

Nobody ever asks men about the work-life balance, and I just find that interesting, because clearly, I would imagine most men also want to be good fathers, and I'm sure they want to be good partners.

My father has passed away. He was African-American. My mother is white. So I was adopted by a couple that was of a similar dynamic as my biological parents.

I'm adopted, so I didn't know my father, but apparently he was pretty tall.

My mother's from Texas. Small town outside of Waco called Downsville. And my father's from Nigeria. And so I guess I'm properly African-American.

[My parents] met in university back in the '70s. And I didn't grow up with my father. He - they separated before I was born.

To distract myself from thoughts of my father, i decided to check out the dead body.

When my father spoke, it was to say something meaningful.

My father was a man of few words.

I was always listening to my father more than anyone. I was always afraid of my father more than anyone. But there's a moment in time where other men in your life can have a huge impact.

You will not find what you want in the world, only in the Father.

I love my kids, I'm a proud father, a happy husband, and all of that. I live my life with my wife as a normal person, and that's that.

Just looking at me, I am a Black man. Born and bred, through and through. But I am also a lot of things. I am a father. I am a husband. I am a Christian. I am a comic book geek and I'm a creator.

I took my daughter to the father-daughter dance and I cried like a little baby. She's 11 years old, so seeing her get dressed up and pretty made me cry.