My Father Quotes

If fathers were to be mothers, then there will never have a family of more than three.

Father eternal, ruler of creation, Spirit of life, which moved ere form was made Through the thick darkness covering every nation Light to man's blindness, O be Thou our aid.

Let your child be the teenager he or she wants to be, not the adolescent you were or wish you had been.

Is this a fit time, said my father to himself, to talk of Pensions and Grenadiers?

We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.

My father was a dentist. And my mother was a - do we still say "housewife"? A home engineer.

My parents had a love for music. There were so many records, so much music constantly being played. My mother played piano, my father sang, and we were always surrounded in music.

My father was somewhat to the right of Genghis Khan.

When I was a boy I was my father.

My mother's side is Italian; my father's side is Jewish. We're the kind of family where every Sunday night we have dinner with all 19 of my cousins.

I think if I got a bicycle from my father, I should give a car to my son.

You see things really different when your father is so intimately, so indisputably in charge of your continued existence on the planet.

My father brought me my first stack of comics, when I was seven years old and in the hospital. I was not a well child. And that's where my love for comics began.

I'm ridiculous in my oversharing; my mom and sister are very open but a little more judicious than me... and my father is a decidedly private person.

It's interesting to be playing a father who's on the other side because that's not my world and not where I came from.

Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew.

My father said I was perfectly suited for Washington because I've always worked around nuts.

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the family.

the finest achievements are those of the pen. ... To me God the Father is a writer.

I remember, as a kid, my dad always told me, "Getting older beats the alternative." Although, now my father actually is the alternative, so I don't know what he would say. He's completely dead.

My father worked at the Naval Ordnance Lab, and they had a nine-hole course on the property. You paid a quarter.

I started playing golf when I was a kid, because across the street from where we lived there was a little nine-hole golf course where my father worked.

I would have to say that my mother's entrepreneurial perspective, and that of her father's, are very evident in my own outlook.

I don't think for this generation, but for my generation and my father's generation, men had difficulty in accessing emotion and then being able to talk about it.

But Dad and I are the only father-and-daughter acts who have both had No. 1 songs in England.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

My father required me to honor my father and my mother too much to put up games on them. I did on occasion.

My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in discipline.

I let my boy go and do and say pretty much as he likes, as, and perhaps because, my father kept no string on me.

I have been informed that he has started false allegations regarding myself and the cause of my illness. It angers me to see that my own father would stoop to such a level.

I think my biggest focus for myself is learning how to continue to get through the trauma that my father has caused in my life.

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

OK, I admit it. I was just a front-man for the real fathers of Linux, the Tooth Fairy and Santa Claus.

My own special relationship with America began at an early age. My father, a fellow journalist, named me after Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

My mother would like me to start all interviews by stating that she and my father are perfectly normal. They are proud of me, and as perplexed as anyone by my novels.

Mothers hold close, fathers let go. Maybe that’s the way of the world.

Haven, don't ask me to define the boundaries of normal. You know how I was raised. My father once struck strands of his own pubic hair onto a painting and sold it for a million dollars.

While he bore no real resemblance to anyone in my family, his features were a collection of my mother's and father's best attributes, with a few of Gregory Peck's thrown in.

My father insisted that the boys in my life were directly responsible for my juvenile-delinquent tendencies. My mother, more accurately, assumed that I was the bad influence.

I grew up in the South with my father; blues and country, that's always been my core. But I had it in me not to do what was expected. I wanted to find my own footing.

Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

When I was younger, I thought LisaRaye sounded so country, but I've come to really appreciate my family-given name. I was named after my father, David Ray McCoy, and I'm totally a daddy's girl.

My mother was an artist and highly strung, whereas my father was much calmer.

I have a strong and strange character, and I've rarely met directors who knew what to do with this character. One of the few who did was my father, and in the theatre, Arthur Nauzyciel.

I've made love to my mother, killed my father, and my brother. What am I to do?

The rich son waits for his father to die, the poor just drink and cry.

...Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

The De Bernières were very military. I broke the military tradition but I was terribly proud of my father being a soldier.

My father was adopted. He grew up in the Italian household.